On Friday 04 September 2009 20:15:52 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Boyd Lynn Gerber
wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:40:42 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Graham Anderson wrote:
Many of these names seem to focus on having a pronounceable acronym, but the name doesn't quite seem to fit the product or make sense. The product name should be more important than it's acronym. Focus on the product name i.m.o then derive an acronym that fits.
*Open Enterprise Server*
http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/
That one is sort of taken... ;-)
Best,
Z
A testament to Novell's marketing prowess, no doubt, *cough, ahem* ;) "Just like netware, only better" I fondly remember the day when there was _nothing_ better than Netware. Arguably on some fronts there is still nothing better than Netware + NDS, but I digress. Novell's products have always been renowned for their technical excellence. Netware, NDS/eDir and so on. SuSE linux was always known for it's great engineering and technical excellence also. If there's a need for a stepping stone to SLES, then the product/distro/project should not lose sight of the core engineering excellence that Novell Inc and SuSE Gmbh stand for. The project/product name should reflect the aforementioned technical excellence; non-descriptive names such as green, rock, blue, black, purple, geecko, nerdo, mean, lean, fighting, machine... these are just confusing. Focus on your goal, and *name it appropriately*. Engineers and technical decision makers are your target audience, not "Trendy Toad" desktop installs. Great engineering is cool, bad acronyms are not. I think that's my point, for now. -- “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” ☘ Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org