| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Version Numbering |
| Date: | 2010-08-20 22:33:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1282343633.9325.14.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:10 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >
> >
> > Maybe we can give marketing brand names to every new version so people
> > is not confused by numbers...
>
> Ah, yes. Because it's so intuitive that Windows 7 comes after Windows 95... :-)
Not really a comparable argument. I find it interesting that people are
making logical arguments about something that is clearly not in the
logical realm. This is marketing people.
Windows 7 works because it is > than Windows Vista. It sounds, looks and
feels greater. It also certainly doesn't hurt that they have billions
for marketing.
JD
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