Yeah, something about Satrap feels softer and a little harder to say
than some of the others.
My current take on things:
Knox - good, but with a silent K people could be confused and type
things like "nox" or "knocks"
Alcatraz - my favorite, recognizable name, stands for something that
is impenetrable/super secure, good alphabetical location, has a hard/
firm sound to the name which I like
Lockdown - not bad, but kind of generic sounding
ServeAndProtect - wordy, don't like the word "and" in the name -
especially when typing domain names.
Nobu - not sure I understand this one, has no inherit meaning (at
least to me), don't like
Satrap - I loved the story/meaning behind it, but I don't like the way
it sounds. Also less inherently meaningful to the general populace
than Alcatraz. I feel like if I saw Apache Satrap vs Apache Alcatraz,
the latter immediately makes me think of rock-solid security and
sounds "cooler"
Just my 2 cents,
Jeremy
On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
I don't mean to be a downer, but I really don't like Satrap. I think
the reasoning behind it is fantastic, but to me at least, it just
doesn't roll off the tongue. It sounds very abrubt and almost harsh.
Also, maybe worth noting, that name is very hard to pronounce for many
non-native English speakers, especially for Asians. The r is hard to
form after t's, and the final p is usually silent, at least when
speaking quickly. Just sounds off to me for some reason :(
Again, this is just my personal take on it. Feel free to disagree :)
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Alan D. Cabrera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 25, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
So far we have
Knox
Alcatraz
Lockdown
ServeAndProtect
Nobu
Are their any other candidates?
After some name picking with Alan today (we tested many names on IM,
playing with the idea of secure, api, apache, stuff like that), we
checked
names like asapi (M$ owned), secapi (CA owned), Giuseppe, apasapi,
JSAPI
(but it's already Java Speach API), we arrived to something cool :
Satrap.
It's a common name, so we won't be sued for using it, it means
"protector
of a province" from the ancient greek xšaθra ("realm" or
"province") and
pāvā ("protector"). Realm Protector, isn't that cool ?
Some more here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap
And the coolest : it's short, and easy to remember...
Lot's of good discussion. I think we should call up a vote on this
sometime
next week.
Regards,
Alan
