Re: Name that project contest!

On Friday 08 April 2005 22:22, Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:24 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Friday 08 April 2005 20:36, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > >> Very soon, I will be launching a sponsored project around optimizing
> > > >> PostgreSQL for Business Intelligence, Decision Support and Data
> > > >> Warehousing applications.   One problem we've had is coming up with
> > > >> a name for this project.      Suggestions so far have included
> > > >> "P.G.B.I." and "PostGreen", but nothing has really grabbed us.
> > > >
> > > > Oracle?
> > >
> > > Just in case... this was a joke.
> >
> > How about just calling it "postgres".  This would show a relationship
> > with PostgreSQL  and it's predecessor POSTGRES but be easily
> > differentiated by the unique spelling.
>
> How about "firefox"?  Or maybe, "firebird"?  Oh wait...
>

When the firbird folks tried to write a clone of oracle they called it
fyracle... I'm not sure how close this will be but maybe postgracle would be
good?

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Robert Treat
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