| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A renaming analogy |
| Date: | 2007-09-03 15:31:25 |
| Message-ID: | 200709031531.l83FVPl01330@momjian.us |
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Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >> The Company Formerly Known as Federal Express changed their name. I
> >> can still recall their old slogan: "Federal Express: When it
> >> absolutely, positively has to be there overnight." For reasons I
> >> don't know (but could probably learn if I spent some time doing the
> >> research), they concluded that they should re-brand as FedEx. They
> >> had something going for them in that new name: that's what everyone
> >> "in the know" _already_ called them.
> >
> > http://www.vizual.com/resources/nl/Nov03/article1.asp
>
> Relevant quotes...
>
> Under a cloak of secrecy on June 22, 1994, a mysterious aircraft
I think we lost the "cloak of secrecy" option. ;-)
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