Thanks for the post, then who named Tomcat?
Is there companion Jerrymouse technology?
yong
On 8-Apr-08, at 5:59 AM, Frank Fischer wrote:
Hi
I am learning java .
Plz tell me anyone java stands for
dora
Basically, that's not a question for the tomcat mainling list and
you could
have found out your own with no effort, but....
From http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/better_is_always_different
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Begin forwarded message:
From: James Gosling
Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT
To: Jonathan Schwartz
Subject: How was Java named?
The story goes like this:
We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected
essentially
randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the
trademark
lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but
nothing
got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing
stopping us from shipping was the name.
Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't
remember his name, but he was great). We could neither afford the
price nor
the time of a conventional product naming process. He agreed to do
something
rather odd, but effective and quick: he acted as a facilitator at a
meeting
where about a dozen of us locked ourselves in a room for an
afternoon. He
started asking us questions like "How does this thing make you feel?"
(Excited!) "What else makes you feel that way?" (Java!) We ended up
with a
board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a
sorting process where we ended up with a ranking of the names. We
ended up
with a dozen name candidates and sent them off to the lawyers: they
worked
down the list until they hit one that cleared their search. "Java"
was the
fourth name on the list. The first name on the list was "Silk",
which I
hated but everyone else liked. My favorite was "Lyric", the third
one on the
list, but it didn't pass the lawyers test. I don't remember what the
other
candidate names where.
So, who named Java? Marketing organized the meeting, the consultant
ran it,
and a whole pile of us did a lot of yelling out of random words. I'm
honestly not real sure who said "Java" first, but I'm pretty sure it
was
Mark Opperman.
There certainly wasn't any brilliant marketing mind who went through a
coherent thought process.
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