RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Januski, Ken
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:

RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Yansheng Lin
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

Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Tim Funk
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 he

Re: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread epyonne
> 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 mu

RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Shapira, Yoav
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'? Lik

RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Yansheng Lin
. 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? > >B

RE: [ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Shapira, Yoav
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 s

[ot] why tomcat is called tomcat?

2004-02-06 Thread Yansheng Lin
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