Not a big deal, just thought it might set a good precedent. Interestingly, while they list "Contribute (Macromedia)" in the awards they also refer to "Macromedia Flex (Macromedia)". The split seems to be about 50/50.
Also, I suggest you start the letter with a note of thanks for selecting Tomcat as a winner. As an enthusiastic user of Tomcat, I personally am thrilled to see my favorite servlet container continue to receive recognition and honors.
Best, WILL
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta General List" <general@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [draft] SD Magazine: request for change
I did consider it, but thought that a request for:
Apache Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Software Foundation)
would be overkill. In much the same way that they have:
Flash Lite 1.1 (Macromedia)
and yet it's correctly referred to as Macromedia Flash.
I can happily add it if there's a few +1s for doing so.
Hen
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
Good note.
It surprises me you don't want to mention the branding issue ("Apache Tomcat" vs "Tomcat"). I'd think that'd be a point that a publication and commercial enterprise like SD Magazine would understand well and be completely sympathetic to.
It's entirely possible the SD magazine intended to honor both the product (Apache Tomcat) and the JBoss organization. Whether they should link the two is subject to debate. But the fact that the product should be "Apache Tomcat 5.0" not "Tomcat 5.0" is inarguable.
regards, WILL
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <general@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: [draft] SD Magazine: request for change
Due to the timeliness of this, I plan to send it Sunday night. Given that we're on a weekend, I doubt it will be read until Monday.
Any opinions?
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Hi Kate,
I'm writing to let you know about a serious error on your JOLT product excellence awards press release, and I assume in your forthcoming June 2005 issue:
http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf
You've incorrectly attributed Apache's Tomcat 5.0 product to "The Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss".
There are two, very big, problems with this.
The first is that Apache does not have a concept of leading contributors, it is completely out of sync with the very philosophies that lie at the heart of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
The second is that JBoss are not a contributor to Tomcat. Two Tomcat committers are employed by JBoss Inc, but they commit to projects at the ASF as individuals and not as members of a company. This is true of all committers to the ASF, whether the company be Sun, IBM or Fred Bloggs Inc.
We would like to request that this be changed to:
Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Software Foundation)
in both the press release (pdf url above) and the forthcoming June 2005 issue.
Thanks,
Henri Yandell V.P., Apache Jakarta
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