>>> Then what about biff? Named after the writer's dog. Anyone remember Seattle Lab? It was named for the owner's black lab.
My first computer company that I worked for was called Toga Computer Services. Named after the owners, "To"ny and "Ga"ry. We actually got calls from people who thought we did dry cleaning... Later on, they changed the name to Datasense... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM?]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 [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
