Vanilla Sky - vanilla for the lack of 3rd party/non mainline patches and sky for being open and more than oracle's DB-bootloader "sun". regards, Florian
2010/8/6, Marty Scholes <martyscho...@yahoo.com>: >> 2010/8/3 Günther <a...@hfg-gmuend.de>: >> > and the winner is... >> > >> > IllumOs >> >> Unfortunately. Good project, dreadful name. > > We live in an age where the success of a project seems to be proportional to > how disconnected the name appears to be from the product / service. > > Look at the big companies today and ask yourself if, at first glance, you > would be able to guess what they do. > * Ebay (what?!?!?!) > * Amazon (sure, name a bookstore after a river; that makes sense) > * Google (now we are just making up words) > * Yahoo! (no clue at first) > * Napster (sleeping pill?) > * Java (An island? Coffee? Nope, a C++ like programming language) > * Ubuntu > * Red Hat > * Unix (a neutered MUTLICS. Sure, we would have all guessed that one) > > While I'm sure there are plenty of counterexamples, the best names seem to > be made up and/or cause significant confusion regarding their purpose. > > IllumOS fits the bill. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Do YOU trust google? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
