On Monday 28 March 2005 18:17, Randy Williams wrote: > Greetings All, > > In the absence of an informal poll, it appears that "Aurora" is closing in > on the name win. While I do like "harbinger", the international appeal > that Aurora has is certainly in keeping with our goals.
Randy: Harbinger Timothy: Harbinger Peter K: Aurora John: Aurora Peter B: Aurora/Harbinger Nicolas: Aurora Sandeep: Cyanium/Aurora Rene: Graphite/Aurora (previous thread) Daniel: Aurora/Harbinger Attila: Harbinger If I missed you, sorry. Reply with your vote. This puts Harbinger at 4, and Aurora at 5, or 5 / 7 depending on how you count. As you say, with Aurora coming from Latin (Roman goddess of the dawn), it's probably a bit better than Harbinger internationally, at least in the west. > Now, if this name holds up it will have to be determined if it is the name > of this product only, or the name of this line of graphics products in > general. If the latter than the surnames of "borealis" becomes really cool. > > What sayeth the community? Well, if we name the first one Aurora Borealis, and the second one Aurora Australis, what do we name the third one? Assuming there is one of course, but it does seem a bit limited. Alternatively, we could sell the normal version of the first one as Aurora Borealis, and then sell a special version with all the components upside-down as Aurora Australis. But I don't know how that would be useful :-). I'm also not sure about naming it after something. I like the Foundation series a lot, but I think we would be better off with something original. Third, I think it's a good idea to have a simple name that stays, at least for a while. In the past everything would have new names all the time, but these days people seem to stick with them. There have been a whole lot of different chips named Pentium or even Pentium IV, and a bunch of different Athlons, as well as a whole family of Radeons and a whole set of Geforces. If we give the second card a name that is substantially different from that of the first, we lose all the brand recognition we created earlier. So I think we need at least some continuity. I say simply name the first one Aurora, then start expanding on that later. We could have an Aurora II or an Aurora FX or an Aurora++ or whatever. Lourens _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
