On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 20:55:11 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 19:21 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: > > Antonio, > > You in fact wear the best argument for a unique name in your sig. Who is > > arguably the most successful Open Source company: Red Hat > > > > What in gods name does a Red Hat have to do with software other than give > > them a really cool logo. > > > > This discussion is indicative, much of marketing is about creating buzz. > > I would like a name that leads to a logo that is sexy enough for people > > to use as a desktop background, Redhat does and Fedora and Firefox. I > > was looking at the "LibO" abbreviation and the thing that I suddenly saw > > was LbD, or LBD which is abrreviation for "Little Black Dress", suddenly > > I see a very cool logo and marketing campaign and a buzz. One great > > thing is that LBD is cool to both men and women, both groups tend to > > like the way they look. > > > > What has it to do with Office suites? About the same amount that Computer > > Operating systems have to do with Hats. > > > > But dang what a buzz it would cause: An office suite that was sexy, now > > THAT would be cool to market. > > > > Cheers > > GL > > Graham, you & I think alike! But I should have thought of Red Hat when I > was hurling out examples. And... Hmmm.... a sexy office suite? I'm sure > someone could manage that, without it being also sexist. > > Cheers, Jean
Heh, As soon as I thought of it, I thought Jean is going to burn me for this! :) But then I thought Oh well No Pain No Gain. :D Cheers G -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
