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
