On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jeff Eckermann wrote:
> Well, for one:
>
> An awful lot of people think the name is:
> "Postgre-SQL", or
> "Postgre-SEQUEL"
>
> If marketing matters (as a lot of people have been
> suggesting in recent threads), then better to have a
> non-ambiguous name that is easy to pronounce
> correctly.
Post-gres-Q-L ... again, that is difficult to pronounce in what way? Or
is it just too much work to educate ppl? I'm sorry, but I have alot of
ppl that ask me about 'Postgres', and the first thing I do is explain to
them what *Postgres* was, and how to pronounce Post-gres-Q-L ...
personally, I've been saying it for so long now that it just rolls off the
tongue *shrug*