[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

Gabriel! gbenselum at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 13:11:34 UTC 2010


Totally Agree with Brandon, but maybe we could point someone with Marketing
credentials to take this kind of decisions (not me of course!).



On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Brandon Mercer
<yourcomputerpal at gmail.com>wrote:

> Along with the branding thing... The name isn't a large sticking point for
> me at all, and I REALLY like the logos, website and presence that the PHB
> would perceive when they went to investigate the project. Sure it's not
> complete or matured but the project is new. I look forward to what that
> will
> bring. Make sure you allow as many lies and misperceptions as every other
> "enterprise" product so as not to be outdone! ;)
> Cheers,
> Brandon
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz
> > <gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So, your question is a good one... is that name enough to "compete"
> with
> > them?
> >
> > I would have no issue recommending "OpenIndiana" in a board room to a
> > bunch of pointy-haired-bosses* - it sounds way more corporate than
> > Ubuntu, FreeBSD or CentOS, which I personally think sound "cheap".
> > When someone first suggested CentOS to me as an alternative to RHEL, I
> > was like "What?!". But over the years CentOS has gained an excellent
> > reputation and I have no doubt that installations of it exceed those
> > of RHEL significantly.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm biased as I essentially chose the name, but I don't see an
> > issue with it. The biggest grumbles seemed to come from oldschool
> > bearded UNIX types who haven't gotten over /usr/gnu/bin being put at
> > the front of their PATH and who view Ian Murdock as the harbinger of
> > doom and all things evil.
> >
> > The fact is we live in a world where every decent dictionary word is
> > in use by somebody, somewhere. *.com, *.net and *.org are taken. Heck,
> > in the UK/Europe we have some large banks called Smile and Egg. :-)
> > Sometimes you have to make tough choices. Although OpenIndiana is not
> > as sexy a name as "Solaris", the fact is, it was available and seemed
> > a pretty good choice.
> >
> > If your bosses genuinely make business decisions based on trivialities
> > such as what something is called, then you probably have bigger
> > organisational issues than what OS your servers run :-P
> >
> >
> > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
> >
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