On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cédric Villemain > <cedric.villemain.deb...@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.
Actually, I found it unprofessional as well. Merlin Moncure Resident PostgreSQL Badass -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
