Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Andy Astor <andy(dot)astor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-09-03 12:23:49
Message-ID: 20070903122349.GB4998@alvh.no-ip.org
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Jim Nasby escribió:

> Pronouncibility for English speakers is a *HUGE* problem with the current
> name. Why doesn't that exist for other languages? Because it's a foreign
> name to begin with!

Actually, it is a problem in spanish too. Postgres even sounds like a
regular word, and is easily pronounceable; PostgreSQL is just a weird
construct and not many people know what to do with it (except mashing it
into something else for saying out loud).

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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