On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Sorry to have been the one to start a DB holy war everyone. To
> be quite honest, I wanted MySQL to be included with RedHat simply
> because it is now GPL, and the name sounds way cooler. Try it:
>
> "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!
Well, if you take the correct pronounciation of SQL into account
('sequel'), it sounds like 'Postgres-Sequel' which just makes perfect
sense :-)
Nils
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