+1 On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:29 PM Lin Yuan <apefor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1. > > Just to give some of my real experience: > 1) I advertised a recent GluonNLP blog and many responses are "This seems > nice. So is Gluon a new library to replace MXNet?" > 2) We visited customers in a unicorn company who showed interests in MXNet > but none of the engineers knew the relationship between GluonNLP/GluonCV > and MXNet > 3) When integrating MXNet to Horovod and adding examples, I received > comments like "What is Gluon? Is it a new library in addition to MXNet?" > > Everyone is talking about PyTorch nowadays, but not Caffe2 anymore although > the latter is still serving as a backend component. Maybe we should also > doubledown on one brand? > > Lin > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:02 PM Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi dev@ > > > > We heard feedback from users that the Gluon name is confusing. Some of > > them don't even know it's MXNet and it's unclear the relationship with > > MXNet > > > > Would it make sense to rebrand Gluon to just MXNet or MXNet > > imperative? Diluting brands and names is never a good idea. > > > > There's also gluonhq which is related to JavaFX which adds to the > > confusion, search engine friendliness is not high as well. > > > > Pedro. > > >
