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From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
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In response to The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)  ("Liam O'Duibhir" <liamod@fast.fujitsu.com.au>)
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Liam O'Duibhir wrote:
> +1 I vote in favour of the name change.
> ...
> Personally, I think if the new name takes 5 (or even more) years to
> ‘settle in’ and become the norm, that will be a reasonable outcome.

Indeed.   HP Sales people and support don't yell at customers
for calling them Hewlett Packard even today - and hp.com still
shows "Official Hewlett-Packard site" in it's Meta Description tags.

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