RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
Howdy, James Duncan Davidson, the first tomcat developer, came up with it thinking of the animal tomcat which is excellent at taking care of and fending for itself, a highly self-sufficient creature. (This was in the very early stages of J2EE in general, remember). Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -Original Message- From: Yansheng Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:36 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? Is it Friday yet? Being working with tomcat for such a long time; wondered about the name 'tomcat' a few times. Did a search this morning... for 30 seconds. Couldn't find anything...too many hits. Wonder if anyone hear knows the story. -Yan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
Did he have to get the name approved? Was he working for Sun? Did he know tomcat is going to be so popular. What do people outside of computer world think of the name 'tomcat'? Like someone who doesn't know what it does and just hear a bunch of his computer friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than IIS. -Yan -Original Message- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:52 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? Howdy, James Duncan Davidson, the first tomcat developer, came up with it thinking of the animal tomcat which is excellent at taking care of and fending for itself, a highly self-sufficient creature. (This was in the very early stages of J2EE in general, remember). Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -Original Message- From: Yansheng Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:36 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? Is it Friday yet? Being working with tomcat for such a long time; wondered about the name 'tomcat' a few times. Did a search this morning... for 30 seconds. Couldn't find anything...too many hits. Wonder if anyone hear knows the story. -Yan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
Howdy, Did he have to get the name approved? Was he working for Sun? Did he know tomcat is going to be so popular. No (not formally, anyways, but more like an informal conversation with other developers), yes, and no. What do people outside of computer world think of the name 'tomcat'? Like Don't know, as I'm not outside the computer world ;) You can always conduct a survery, but I since I doubt people outside the computer world have heard of the tomcat server, I don't know what kind of results your survery would yield. friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than IIS. I certainly like the name Apache better than I do IIS. But be careful jumping to broader marketing conclusions without grounding them in research, i.e. representative polls and surverys. Personally, I tend to like names with meaning, like Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Hibernate, better than generic names like Internet Information Server, [CompanyName] Workflow Engine, etc, because the former names are more interesting, intriguing, make you think a bit. Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
What do people outside of computer world think of the name 'tomcat'? Like someone who doesn't know what it does and just hear a bunch of his computer friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than IIS. Tomcat is also the nickname of the US Naval fighter jet, it can't be any cooler than that. =) I like the name Apache, but I don't like the name Jakarta. Just my $0.02. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
FAQ http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/meta.html -Tim Yansheng Lin wrote: Is it Friday yet? Being working with tomcat for such a long time; wondered about the name 'tomcat' a few times. Did a search this morning... for 30 seconds. Couldn't find anything...too many hits. Wonder if anyone hear knows the story. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
Agreed. OS/2, DB2 to name a few. Sorry, big blue:). -Original Message- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:36 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than IIS. I certainly like the name Apache better than I do IIS. But be careful jumping to broader marketing conclusions without grounding them in research, i.e. representative polls and surverys. Personally, I tend to like names with meaning, like Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Hibernate, better than generic names like Internet Information Server, [CompanyName] Workflow Engine, etc, because the former names are more interesting, intriguing, make you think a bit. Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?
My wife loves the logo. She's a non-computer person. But she is a cat person. There is a fairly lengthy explanation of Tomcat origin in the O'Reilly book on Tomcat by the way. I just don't remember much of what it said other than that, I THINK, some code was shown on a screen at a convention, and it happened to show a tomcat class. So someone asked what it referred to and thus Tomcat sprang upon the unsuspecting world. -Original Message- From: epyonne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:42 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat? What do people outside of computer world think of the name 'tomcat'? Like someone who doesn't know what it does and just hear a bunch of his computer friends:0 talking about it. I am asking mostly in terms of marketing. For example, most of people on this list would think Apache sounds much better than IIS. Tomcat is also the nickname of the US Naval fighter jet, it can't be any cooler than that. =) I like the name Apache, but I don't like the name Jakarta. Just my $0.02. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
