Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I totally agree.  The name has proven to be hard to pronounce, and that
> > is bad for marketing, period.  Is marketing important enough to change
> > the name?  That is the question.
>
> No, period.
>
> For starters, ppl are confusing 'word of mouth' with marketing, which they
> aren't the same ...
>
> Marketing *is* the 8 or so books on the shelves and at Amazon for
> PostgreSQL, and the ones to follow ...

So you think, even marketing-wise that PostgreSQL is better.  At a
minimum, we should add "also called 'postgres'" to all our introductory
documentation.

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