Re: LinuxTag wrapup
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <jtv@xs4all.nl>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-07-04T04:10:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Mike Mascari wrote: > The fact that novices can't pronounce the name correctly is a > problem. People will be afraid to raise the possibility as a > solution in the enterprise if they think they'll look like a fool > pronouncing the name aloud. I remember back in '94 being "corrected" > when talking about Linux in the enterprise - and I was corrected in > the wrong direction. You made me remember that some time ago a non-tech fellow presented me as giving a talk about "Postgresol" ... the audience had quite a laugh. It seems nobody thought about instructing him on how to pronounce the thing ... it was rather embarrasing anyway. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica" (Irulan)