On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote:
> Ideas for logos, banners, "powered by"-type buttons are all welcome.
Well, I'd like to just throw one idea into the mix. It's something that's
bugged me for a long time, no better time than the present.
"mod_perl" is a lousy name.
There, I've said it.
For any number of reasons, perl does now and will always face an uphill
struggle in any "Enterprise" application.
For example, at my place of employment, we just went through a rather
arduous task that I fought against and lost.
We had a production site that handled a decent amount of traffic. Apache,
mod_perl, Linux and MySQL. It ran and ran with almost no intervention.
The management team of the company that bought us a year ago had been trying
to force a change in the product by throwing up various arguments, which
were always false. ("MySQL doesnt support Transaction", "Yes it does". "But
they arent atomic.", "Yes they are". "Well, you can't roll them back.", "Yes
you can.")
In the end, I lost. From October to mid January they set about taking our
fully functional product and "replatforming" it to Win2k/IIS/ASP+VB/MSSQL.
The final reason? "Responsible enterprises do not use perl."
mod_perl needs a name. Something marketable, something catchy. The java
folks learned that a long time ago. Their systems are called
"Tomcat/Jakarta" and "Cocoon" and "Resin".
THAT, in my opinion, is what should happen for mod_perl 2.0. It should be
"Adirondack" or "Orwell" or any other generic, innocuous name. Even
"MonkeyButter v1.0" is probably a better deal than mod_perl.
As for logos, Avoiding Camels or Eagles is a requirement. I don't blame ORA
for requiring the trademark notices, the twisted concepts of US trademark
law REQUIRE them to do that. The first time they didnt, they could lose
their trademark. But we should have a "mascot" that makes sense and is OURS.
Linux has the penguin, OpenBSD has the blowfish, the other BSD's have the
devil. Those images are clearly associated with those products, and can be
used WITHOUT corporate approval.
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Chris Thompson
