"rf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > --- Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Catalina is also the name of a small island off the > > coast of southern > > California. I, personally, have no idea why this > > was chosen as a package > > name (I haven't been hanging out here that long). > > Especially since the > > principal author doesn't live in So. CA. > > > > Any idea why "jakarta" is chosen for > jakarta.apache.org? whats the relation between jakarta > and apache? >
This one I actually know :). It is a popular fallacy that it is because Jakarta is (as it happens) the capital of the island of Java in Indonesia. The real reason is that it was simply the name of the conference room in Sun where the project was launched. > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
