"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "My-Skwill" It sounds like something that is "mine". Doesn't it
> feel good to see it as your own? Almost like they wrote it just
> for you.
>
> "Post-gresskwill" just doesn't sound as cool. We don't want
> programs with uncool sounding names getting in the way of Linux
> acceptance now do we? I mean, what exactly is a "Postgre"
> anyways? Not a sense of one-ness like MySQL provides, thats for
> sure!
Yes, I'm acutely conscious of this problem. A name like
"postgresql" is practically anti-marketing. I've often
thought that it might cool to do a nominalogical fork which
would be absolutely identical to postgresql except for the
name.
Practically any other name would be better than postgresql:
OpenBase
FirstBase
MyBase
FreeBase
ACID Trip
(I am, however, glad to hear that MySwill is already in
Rawhide... that's clearly the right move for RedHat.
Ah, if only VA Linux would go around bribing more companies
to go GPL...)
Ob technical content: It's also really weird that the
postgresql server daemon is called "postmaster"...
that's even sillier than Apache being "httpd".
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