See also "wiki" for another cool Hawaiian word.
Alex Balashov wrote:
On Mon, July 28, 2008 1:59 pm, Henning Westerholt wrote:
nice associations. :-) In constrast to the old one is the new name probably really exotic. But its surprisingly hard to find a name with free domains, that lacks trademarks and so on.
This is very true. Even when things aren't gobbled up as trade names, domains tend to be viciously hoarded.
And after all, if you look at "akamai", then hawaian words are not that rare in the telco world..
True, but Akamai is a "web economy"-oriented company. These kinds of names are more kosher in hyper-caffinated, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Silicon Valley "Web 2.0" market spaces. Eccentric, eclectic and unusual-sounding names derived from foreign words, including from African and far Eastern or Pacific indigenous languages or locales, have grown to be accepted and fashionable in the web startup world.
The telecom world, on the other hand, is mostly full of polished, slicked-back, surly (or alternately, oily) conservative types in the executive and managerial corps, generally of the 40+ age demographic. Their lexicon and buzzword bingo formula is very different -- one into which "OpenSER" fits quite nicely.
-- Alex