On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Joe Brenner 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.
Actually, while I agree with you 100% about naming software with
marketable names... my posting was 100% cynical humor. ;o)
I don't really think that either name sounds cool, or that
software should be included based on irrelevant factors like
their name.. ;o) I just thought it would be good for a few
laughs...
<grin>
>Practically any other name would be better than postgresql:
>
> OpenBase
> FirstBase
> MyBase
> FreeBase
> ACID Trip
How about SQuirreL? ;o) Actually, that is a pretty decent
name! I should clone MySQL from the GPL source now and remarket
it as SQuirreL. ;o)
>(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...)
That will definitely happen in time. What I would REALLY like to
see now is VMWARE GPL'd. The existing 'clone' efforts will take
years, and likely never catch up - although they have my moral
support.
>Ob technical content: It's also really weird that the
>postgresql server daemon is called "postmaster"...
>that's even sillier than Apache being "httpd".
postmaster? Really? I never noticed.. That is certainly
odd.. Then again a LOT of UNIX command names are "awk"ward to
begin with. I think most programmers have zero marketing
skills. ;o)
I've considered calling a future program that I write something
entirely random and based on about 9 or more letters that I
randomly punch with my fist on the keyboard a few times like:
lkq63kadzsdn
Makes about as much sense as something like ht:/dig or half the
programs in /usr/bin. Hehhehe. Ok, enough UNIX bashing
here!!!! ;o)
Take care,
TTYL
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