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Jay Kreps commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-2:
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Following in the footsteps of the other investigations, here are the results:

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption:
Searched for "kafka" on http://www.ohloh.net. 4 hits:
1. Apache Kafka (us)
2. kafka-rb (a ruby client for apache kafka someone wrote)
3. Kafka ("an image-morphing utility")
4. kafkas "kafkas universitesi" (not sure what this is, no code)

Searched sourceforge. 1 Hit:
1. Kafka (win32 image morphing library, same as above) 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kafka/?source=directory
   (by default this gets filtered due to inactivity, so you have to exapand 
your filters to show inactive)

Searched github, 45 results
39 are Apache kafka clients, packaging, or other tools, the rest are given below
Other
 - kafka https://github.com/hhex/kafka "Applet delivering sayings of Karl Kraus 
- written in Clojure"
 - kafka https://github.com/stjarnstrom/kafka "Test-anything-fast-boilerplate"
 - BasicKafka https://github.com/dinomite/BasicKafka
 - Chateau-Kafka https://github.com/exidl/Chateau-Kafka
 - Two empty repos

Searched google code (http://code.google.com/): no hits

Evidence of registration

Searched on TESS: 
4 hits. 1 for "Kafka", "Metal hardware, brassware". None software related.
Searched on http://www.trademarkia.com/:
7 hits. 1 for "Kafka", same as above.

Searched for "open source kafka" on google.com:
- 378,000 results
- First 10 pages are either apache kafka related, franz kafka related. One hit 
for: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kafka/?source=directory The image morphing 
library.

Searched for "open source kafka" on search.yahoo.com
- 3,530 results
- First 10 pages are same as above (apache kafka, franz kafka, plus 2 hits for 
image morphing package)

Searched for "open source kafka" on bing.com
- 2,160,000 results
- Checked first 10 pages, same as above

Searched for "kafka" on google.com (26,600,000 results)
- First page is just Franz Kafka and Apache Kafka
- Subsequent 10 pages also contain: 
   - http://www.kafkawine.com/ - "Kafka Wine"
   - Other people named kafka
   - http://www.kafkagranite.com/ - "Kafka Granite - Decomposed Granite, 
Landscape Boulders..."
   - http://www.kafka.co.uk/ - Kafka - Online Clothing
   - http://kafkafarms.com - Kafka Farms and Equine Center 
   - http://www.kafkaconveyors.com - Kafka Conveyors & Equipment
   - http://kafkascoffee.ca - Kafka's Coffee & Tea

Searched for "kafka" on bing.com (26,700,000 results):
In addition to the google results found
  - http://kafkadentureclinic.com - Kafka Denture Clinic

Searched for "kafka" on search.yahoo.com (28,000,000 results):
 In addition to the above, found:
  - http://www.kafkarealty.net/index.html - Kafka Realty
  - http://www.kafkadesign.com - Kafka Design

Searched for "kafka software" on google.com (2,230,000 results):
Two seem to be software related and not apache kafka:
- Komplexe Analyse Flächenhafter KatasterAufnahmen (KAFKA) Software für 
Ausgleichung (page is in german, translation is "System for analysis and 
adjustment of any terrestrial-geodetic observations")
- KAFKA Flowmeter Simulation 
http://kafka-flowmeter-simulation.software.informer.com/ This is a review of 
something called Kafka, but I can't find a link to the actual product searching 
for "Kafka Flowmeter simulation"

Searched for "kafka software" on bing.com (3,770,000)
- Kafka Software http://www.kafkasoftware.com/ - Company that makes a mobile 
phone app called "I have an idea"

Searched for "kafka software" on search.yahoo.com (3,560,000)
No additional software related results
                
> Establish whether "Apache Kafka" is a suitable name
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-2
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-2
>             Project: Podling Suitable Names Search
>          Issue Type: Suitable Name Search
>            Reporter: Alan Cabrera
>


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