Re: Change the name

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Change the name
Date: 2007-09-16 16:47:23
Message-ID: C905F81C8E440D4C42950440@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Friday, September 14, 2007 23:36:37 -0400 Robert Treat
<xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:

> Unfortunatly I took a fair amount of sales and marketing classes in college,
> so I guess I have to chime in here. The argument against it is weakening the
> brand, and adding confusion to the market place.

Actually, having "two names" is a fairly common practice in the commercial
world ... there is the 'formal name' that a company is registered as, but then
there is also registered a 'trade name', which is what Postgres is ...

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