Re: [U2] silly company names
The trend started decades ago when names like Johnson Software Co were all taken. heh heh He said Johnson. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
The name Brian Kernighan rang a distant bell, and from my bookshelf comes The Bell System Technical Journal, July/August 1978, Vol 57, No. 6, Part 2; which includes: The C Programming Language by D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk and B. W. Kernighan -and- Document Preparation by B. W. Kernighan, M. E. Lesk and J. F. Ossanna, Jr. On 2/19/2011 4:09 PM, Jeff Schasny wrote: from my infinite storehouse of useless facts: grep and sed and really acronyms for global regular expression parser and stream editor. Awk was named for the 3 people who developed the language: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
from my infinite storehouse of useless facts: grep and sed and really acronyms for global regular expression parser and stream editor. Awk was named for the 3 people who developed the language: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan Tony Gravagno wrote: I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and sed. The trend started decades ago when names like Johnson Software Co were all taken. This is just the world we live in. T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA jschasny at gmail dot com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
[ OT from U2, just some weekened chatter ] Of course all names have some raison d'être. Debian is a combination of the names of the author of the distro, Ian, and his wife (GF?) Deb. The problem is when the rest of the world then needs to use these names in daily conversation. Raining Data was originally conceived (maybe over too many drinks) as a clever triple entendre, simultaneously meaning reigning database, reining in of ones data, and (IIRC) some play on the idea of organizing data elements as raindrops. No one ever played on those metaphors in public, err, at least not after the management team that put that into place was sacked. Until the last day before the name went into effect I asked them to reconsider that the name would be more associated with bad things, like storms, floods, draining, leaks, and drowning. Personally I think TigerLogic is much cooler and represents that company better. :) My original company name was going to be 3Laws, paying homage to Issac Asimov's laws of robotics. Not only was that too confusing to people who didn't read sci-fi, wondering if this had something to do with a new legal firm, but the Asimov estate didn't approve the use of the name without some form of compensation. When I created Nebula Research and Development and the domain with Nebula, a hyphen, and the RnD, I put the 'n' in there because I didn't want people to see Nebula-RD and think it was some combination of my business with Raining Data. To this day I regret that whole situation, and one day I might just get a new domain, and maybe change the company name to something shorter like Nebbletto. ;) I'm sure other companies have entertaining stories of the roots of their (sometimes silly) names as well. T From: Jeff Schasny grep and sed and really acronyms for global regular expression parser and stream editor. Awk was named for the 3 people who developed the language: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan Tony Gravagno wrote: I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and sed. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
On 19/02/11 02:24, Tony Gravagno wrote: From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Tony Gravagno wrote: Uh, I don't get it. How are those related? What trend? From: Charlie Noah Silly company names. Oh, well, Raining Data was an amazingly stupid name for a database company. As to the others, is anything really silly anymore considering the names we see every day? Yahoo!, Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Samba, (or more obscure) Vyatta, Wibiya, Stupeflix, Granicus, Zimbra, Xen (or how about Linux distros) Mandriva (formerly Mandrake), Ubuntu, Debian, Sabayon, (or just Linux release names) Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Gutsy, Zoot, Shrike... I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and sed. The trend started decades ago when names like Johnson Software Co were all taken. This is just the world we live in. To follow Jeff's post ... Samba - SMB (Simple Message Block) server Debian - Debbie and Ian's linux Debian release names, Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Sarge, Sid - all come from Toy Story (one of the Debian guys worked on Toy Story, you can see his name in the credits). Then what about biff? Named after the writer's dog. Typical for a lot of unix utilities :-) Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
In a message dated 2/19/2011 3:00:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 3xk547...@sneakemail.com writes: like Nebbletto. ;) You have to pick a name that cannot be mispelled. Otherwise you're going to get squatters at Nebleto, Nebletto, Nablettoes and so on Selling male enhancement pills ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Tony Gravagno wrote: Uh, I don't get it. How are those related? What trend? From: Charlie Noah Silly company names. Oh, well, Raining Data was an amazingly stupid name for a database company. As to the others, is anything really silly anymore considering the names we see every day? Yahoo!, Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Samba, (or more obscure) Vyatta, Wibiya, Stupeflix, Granicus, Zimbra, Xen (or how about Linux distros) Mandriva (formerly Mandrake), Ubuntu, Debian, Sabayon, (or just Linux release names) Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Gutsy, Zoot, Shrike... I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and sed. The trend started decades ago when names like Johnson Software Co were all taken. This is just the world we live in. T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] silly company names
I just Googled (oops) silly company names - there are tons of them out there. Sigh... Have a great weekend, Tony, Charlie On 02-18-2011 8:24 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Tony Gravagno wrote: Uh, I don't get it. How are those related? What trend? From: Charlie Noah Silly company names. Oh, well, Raining Data was an amazingly stupid name for a database company. As to the others, is anything really silly anymore considering the names we see every day? Yahoo!, Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Samba, (or more obscure) Vyatta, Wibiya, Stupeflix, Granicus, Zimbra, Xen (or how about Linux distros) Mandriva (formerly Mandrake), Ubuntu, Debian, Sabayon, (or just Linux release names) Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Gutsy, Zoot, Shrike... I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and sed. The trend started decades ago when names like Johnson Software Co were all taken. This is just the world we live in. T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
