Please add this to the wiki, maybe under "Why Geronimo?". Its excellent!
On 8/14/03 6:19 PM, "n. alex rupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My word is by no means official around here, but the name is and should > remain Apache Geronimo. I'll tell you five good reasons why. > > 1. It's got amazing traction in the press. Brand recognition is an > IMMENSELY important advantage in this market. If you can get 100,000 people > to whisper your name that's a big deal. When people remember it, that's > even bigger. I spent years in the media industry and I can tell you what's > happened in the first two weeks of Geronimo is very special. Throwing that > traction away would be stupid. > > 2. This project and this server will be a place of public accomodation used > by people from all around the world. Everyone from members of powerful > corporations and governments to tiny villages in Honduras will be able to > use it to build web applications for FREE. Naming it in honor of Geronimo > is the equivalent of naming an international airport after John F. Kennedy, > Ronald Reagan or Cesar Vallejo. It is a mark of our highest respect. > > 3. I don't associate his name with jumping out of an airplane or suicide. > Anyone who does might consider spending less time in front of the television > and take up gardening, yoga or base jumping. > > 4. Pointy-haired bosses who don't see the business sense in Open Source are > most likely not the future business leaders of the software industry, and > we're not sycophantic toadies who live to serve them. If they're concerned > about the name of their software because of it rings of a bad war movie or > because it might impact on the appearance of their business, we probably > can't help them anyway. If they're looking for the Vole, they know where to > find it. > > 5. The name is reported to have been democratically chosen by a majority of > the initial project members after 2 weeks of discussion. > > Those are all the reasons I need. > > So please, take all of your names and save them. Most of them are > fantastic. There will be other projects for them and if not, you can always > adopt. I'm not a committing member of this project and I can't speak > officially but I know a good thing when I see one, so I give Geronimo a big > warm fat +1. > > MOAMOATAC. > -- > N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > -- Richard Monson-Haefel Co-Founder\Developer, Apache Geronimo Author of: J2EE Web Services (AW 2003) Enterprise JavaBeans, 4ed (O'Reilly 2004) Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000) http://www.Monson-Haefel.com
