[advocacy-discuss] Reference distribution birth or launch ?

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

	Many, many, many time I had to disagree about UNIX hostnames.
	My customer tries to find some "useful" name...you know things like  
"data-x" or other "front-n".
	And each time I explain that it will be an error in the next future  
they would use the same server for many other function, and then the  
hostname would confuse people. It's a UNIX culture based on experience  
of many sysadmins.

	It's the same error for OS name.

	Is there any people here which could say that "Solaris" name was a  
bad choice versus "SunOS" ?

	Do you know any modern company calling their product with their  
company name ?

	It's a good marketting idea to give a name to products...a name is  
associated to a birth.
	"OpenSolaris" birth was 2 years ago.  Indiana is one week old !

	Just try to think to this sexy product names :
		"Apple Phone", "Apple Internet Browser", "Microsoft OS", "Intel CPU  
model 2007", "Sparc multithreaded CPU", "Sony player for walking  
people".

	
	Nicolas




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