Wonder who stayed up all night thinking of these names Scott ford www.identityforge.com
On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:39 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the Canonical's method of naming releases of the Ubuntu Linux releases. > > Warty Warthog / Hoary Hedgehog / Breezy Badger / Drapper Drake / Edgy Eft / > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:32 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech >> operative's blunder led to banking meltdown) >> >> I've always loved the early CA product naming scheme (CA-1, >> CA-7, et al.). Just think what that saved in marketing costs >> (to secure rights to a name), not to mention tsuris in >> internal naming meetings! >> >> Of course, if they'd kept with it, we'd now be arguing over >> whether CA-237 or CA-984 was the better choice for a >> particular problem. >> >> Maybe the folks who came up with that scheme are now at IBM, >> naming z boxes? (Yes, yes, I *know* the numbers in "z196" and >> "z114" mean something, I'm just sayin'...) >> -- >> ...phsiii >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
