OK, let me try to understand you.
You are paid a heft amount of money to market a product, and it turns out that your marketing strategy is that of follwing the latest stupid fashion, with the result of completely hiding your product in the middle of other, similar names.
Good. Now, to me this sounds pretty stupid.
I would like to point out to you (and to all those who criticised OSS naming schemes here) that is quite obvious that the reason why Linux was the media darling until recently is precisely beacuse of the funny name, the penguin, the story "finnish student decides to write an OS" etc. Can you imagine all those articles about Linux (and Linus) being written about the usual suit, a la Bart? "We sell productivity solutions". Really? How exciting!
If i would ever need some marketing for any of my projects i would spend my money on ESR's advice instead - the way he imposed the term "opensource" (and himself), in the linux world -- well, THAT is a true marketing masterpiece!
Peace out!
Fred
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OK, let me try to understand you. You are paid a heft amount of money to market a product, and it turns out that your marketing strategy is that of follwing the latest stupid fashion, with the result of completely hiding your product in the middle of other, similar names. Good. Now, to me this sounds pretty stupid. I would like to point out to you (and to all those who criticised OSS naming schemes here) that is quite obvious that the reason why Linux was the media darling until recently is precisely beacuse of the funny name, the penguin, the story "finnish student decides to write an OS" etc. Can you imagine all those articles about Linux (and Linus) being written about the usual suit, a la Bart? "We sell productivity solutions". Really? How exciting! If i would ever need some marketing for any of my projects i would spend my money on ESR's advice instead - the way he imposed the term "opensource" (and himself), in the linux world -- well, THAT is a true marketing masterpiece! Peace out! Fred