Autodesk product naming poll

[Paul Spencer]

I'm really starting to think that the foundation should be called  
MapTools and the various projects that become part of the MapTools  
foundation should then keep their own names.  In this alternate  
universe, we would have MapTools MapServer and MapTools MapGuide I  
guess.  If other projects joined, they would (could?) gain the prefix  
MapTools ...

Note that I've always been in favour of co-branding these products,  
and despite the excellent rational arguments against it, I still have  
a gut feel that it would be the right thing to do - I just can't  
defend/explain it and so I'm going to side with the separate name  
camp I think.

Cheers

Paul


On 22-Dec-05, at 3:52 AM, Flavio Hendry wrote:

> Hi Dave
>
> Completely agree with Attila. "MapServer Enterprise" sounds like the
> big brother (Tarzan) of little "Cheetah" (Tarzan's chimpanzee!).
> And "Enterprise" is not even existing yet, therefore did not prove at
> all to be as strong as Tarzan ... Ken was saying somtehing about
> Gorilla, so what's about "MapServer Kala", the mother, for the real
> MapServer, and "MapServer Jane" for the unloved daugther-in-law? ;-)))
>
> Have a nice holiday and fun out in BC, I'll be skiing&more in the
> alps ...
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
>
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