My wife loves the logo. She's a non-computer person. But she is a cat person.
There is a fairly lengthy explanation of Tomcat origin in the O'Reilly book on Tomcat by the way. I just don't remember much of what it said other than that, I THINK, some code was shown on a screen at a convention, and it happened to show a tomcat class. So someone asked what it referred to and thus "Tomcat" sprang upon the unsuspecting world. -----Original Message----- From: epyonne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:42 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? > What do people outside of computer world think of the name 'tomcat'? Like > someone who doesn't know what it does and just hear a bunch of his computer > friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For > example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than > IIS. > Tomcat is also the nickname of the US Naval fighter jet, it can't be any cooler than that. =) I like the name Apache, but I don't like the name Jakarta. Just my $0.02. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
