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It still has a negative connotation. That's unavoidable. People don't like cockroaches. From a marketing point of view, it is a very bad name. Unless the percep
by beders 7y ago
It still has a negative connotation. That's unavoidable.
People don't like cockroaches.
From a marketing point of view, it is a very bad name.
Unless the perception of cockroaches changes, which is rather unlikely.
- nitwit005 7y agoIf you pick a happy name, you get complaints that they sound too generic, sound like a medication name, etc. People also complain if your name ends in .com or .net, as apparently that sounds like something from the mid 90s. People just like complaining about names.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoOn the other hand no one brings this point up about Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB etc. People like complaining about names that they wish things didn't have.
- nitwit005 7y agoI haven't used most of those, but SQL Server is a prime source of griping about names, as Microsoft keeps popping out strangely named variations. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server#Editions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server#Editions
- recursivecaveat 7y agoMy problem with SQL Server is that the name is so generic it sounds more like a product category than a product. Its like naming a word processor "Text Rendering Engine". Microsoft seems to be generally terrible at naming things: I don't know how they expected people to keep .NET Core, Standard, Framework, and Mono separate, not even counting how bad a name .NET is in the first place.
- petepete 7y agoIt also has the advantage of slightly-less-technical people thinking it is the SQL Server and there's no other options.
- pjungwir 7y agoThe Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/10/30/postgres-biggest-mistake/ http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/10/30/postgres-biggest-mi...
- dkersten 7y agoI’m not a paying customer so my anecdote maybe isn’t useful, but there’s so many databases that typically I just brush them off, but this one grabbed my attention because of the name.