Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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

I think the problem is that PostgreSQL is both a name and an acronym,
mixed into single word.  Postgres is a name, SQL is an acronym,
PostgreSQL is both.  That is where people get confused.

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