On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert, Please don't add confusion to your signature : PostgreSQL is a
> community project not an enterprise product.
> --
> Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant
> http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
Uh, whoa. That came out of nowhere for me. I have been using this
signature for about a year, and nobody's said anything about it
before. "The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company" is our corporate slogan,
and at least three of us have it in our signature for that reason,
much as (or so I gather) "PostgreSQL: Support, Training, and Services"
is 2ndQuadrant's tagline (with some variations depending on the
primary language of the person posting), and "The PostgreSQL Company -
Command Prompt, Inc." is CommandPrompt's tag line. Any of those
slogans - and *especially* CommandPrompt's - could be taken to imply
that one of those companies is the primary driving force behind
PostgreSQL, but in fact - as we are all aware - no one company
dominates the market for PostgreSQL products and services, or controls
its development.
Someone from another community could be forgiven for thinking that any
of those taglines intend to imply that the associated company occupies
the same position with respect to PostgreSQL that 10gen has with
respect to MongoDB, but I don't see that any one of them is
exponentially more egregious than any of the others.
Heck, even the name "PostgreSQL Experts, Inc." could be taken to imply
that the rest of us are all chumps.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company