I agree with Geoff. My preferences among the names mentioned so far is
White Knight or Firebird. My guess is that it is an advantage to have a
name different to anything else if the database becomes well known. And I
see no reason for wanting IB to copy any other database. Do we want people
to think "Ah, this name indicates that this is a product similar to dBase
or Sybase"?

Set

At 19:12 03.08.2000 +1000, you wrote:

>> - something out of left-field
>> :: the offer of "White Knight", ...
>
>Being out of "left-field" is one reason for favouring this as an option. I
>dont actually see much advantage to including "SQL" or "data" or "base" in
>the name - and I do see certain disadvantages of unwanted association and
>generalisation (why look at xxxSQL rather than yyyySQL).
>
>If a person does a search for SQL on the web because they happen to be
>looking for an SQL database server they are going to get so much back that
>they will not notice something like "FireSQL" in the middle of page 1025 of
>the search results - to catch such a search we would need to call it
>AardvarkSQL.
>
>As long as the home page has a title like "White Knight - The Open-Source
>SQL RDBMS" or similar then people should still get the idea - even off the
>results of a search. When it gets as famous as MacDonalds - notice that it
>is not MacBurger, or MacFastFood - then it wont even need that ;-)
>
>And last but not least: I do like the the name "White Night".
>
>Just a thought
>
>Geoff Worboys
>Telesis Computing
>gworboys@...
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