Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

Nice job Gavin...

Now that I have landed at EnterpriseDB and joined the community, a
number of high level people have told me they love the Postgres naming
over PostgreSQL because they told me it is a lot easier to say and a
nice name simplification of the OSS project that is experiencing nice
growth and expansion. So I vote for Postgres.

z.

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From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Gavin M. Roy
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:04 PM
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] The naming question (Postgres vs
PostgreSQL)

I decided to do a little photoshop work in case there was enough of a
consensus at some point in the near future to get the ball rolling.

Gavin

On 8/28/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

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Decibel! wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:22:50PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
>> 2007-08-28_10:53:41-0400 Decibel! < decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
<mailto:decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> >:
>>
>>> The google hits argument is no reason not to change the name.
>> It is. When people start searching for information using the term
>> "postgres" they will be missing out on the vast majority of available

>> information for years.
>
> Has anyone actually looked at what those 27M PostgreSQL hits are? I'm
> betting that 90% of them are duplicate copies of mailing list traffic.
> If you exclude content generated by us (which doesn't count because we

> can change the name via sed), I'm betting there's just barely 5M web
> pages about us (which would account for all the Postgres hits).

The only thing that matters is the first 10-12 hits on the first page.

Joshua D. Drake

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