Re: Wanted: new project slogan - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Wanted: new project slogan
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Msg-id 1264627914.4720.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Wanted: new project slogan  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Re: Wanted: new project slogan
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On ons, 2010-01-27 at 11:45 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Many suggestions in this thread use "Database" interchangeably with
> "Database Management System". The latter is a little verbose, but
> "Database System" should be concise enough for a slogan without losing
> the meaning.

You are completely right that "PostgreSQL" is not a "database", but it's
tempting to use it in a slogan because it's shorter and more
recognizable.  But "database system" is also not correct, and arguably
not as short and recognizable.  So you'd get the worst of both worlds
that way.


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