29 Jul
2008
29 Jul
'08
5:21 a.m.
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