[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

[Gabriel!]

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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