Re: A renaming analogy

From: Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A renaming analogy
Date: 2007-09-03 10:21:26
Message-ID: 200709030621.26595.robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
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On Sunday 2 September 2007 20:23, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 9/2/07, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> > In thinking about the renaming issue, I remembered a case that is a
> > good analogy with ours: FedEx.
>
> Good analogy.

other examples of change

BMO: Bank of Montreal
KFC: Kentucky Fired Chicken
TD: Toronto Dominion Bank

This shortening of company names has been going ever since the term "trans-global corporation" came into common parlance.

Robert

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