Totally Agree with Brandon, but maybe we could point someone with Marketing credentials to take this kind of decisions (not me of course!).
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Brandon Mercer <yourcomputer...@gmail.com>wrote: > Along with the branding thing... The name isn't a large sticking point for > me at all, and I REALLY like the logos, website and presence that the PHB > would perceive when they went to investigate the project. Sure it's not > complete or matured but the project is new. I look forward to what that > will > bring. Make sure you allow as many lies and misperceptions as every other > "enterprise" product so as not to be outdone! ;) > Cheers, > Brandon > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz > > <gabriel.delac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So, your question is a good one... is that name enough to "compete" > with > > them? > > > > I would have no issue recommending "OpenIndiana" in a board room to a > > bunch of pointy-haired-bosses* - it sounds way more corporate than > > Ubuntu, FreeBSD or CentOS, which I personally think sound "cheap". > > When someone first suggested CentOS to me as an alternative to RHEL, I > > was like "What?!". But over the years CentOS has gained an excellent > > reputation and I have no doubt that installations of it exceed those > > of RHEL significantly. > > > > Perhaps I'm biased as I essentially chose the name, but I don't see an > > issue with it. The biggest grumbles seemed to come from oldschool > > bearded UNIX types who haven't gotten over /usr/gnu/bin being put at > > the front of their PATH and who view Ian Murdock as the harbinger of > > doom and all things evil. > > > > The fact is we live in a world where every decent dictionary word is > > in use by somebody, somewhere. *.com, *.net and *.org are taken. Heck, > > in the UK/Europe we have some large banks called Smile and Egg. :-) > > Sometimes you have to make tough choices. Although OpenIndiana is not > > as sexy a name as "Solaris", the fact is, it was available and seemed > > a pretty good choice. > > > > If your bosses genuinely make business decisions based on trivialities > > such as what something is called, then you probably have bigger > > organisational issues than what OS your servers run :-P > > > > > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
