[OT] Why not keep the name dbXML????

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@verizon.net>]

> From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:kstaken@dbxmlgroup.com]
> 
> On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 06:01 AM, Niels Peter Strandberg
wrote:
> 
> > Why change the name from dbXML to the name Xindice. As one pointed
out,
> > It sound like gambling, will I win or loose. And to much "x" is
already
> > out there. dbXML sound like what it is, and it is a name widely
known to
> > the xml public.
> >
> > Keep the name dbXML!
> >
> 
> I wish we could have. I like the name dbXML a lot better too, even
though
> I'm the person who came up with the name Xindice. You can blame Tom
for
> the pronunciation though. :-)
> 
> > Xindice is really a bad name, for this kind of product!!!!
> >
> 

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> 
> As for the gambling relationship ... well as long as we don't use that
for
> our logo I think we'll be fine.
> 

Sorry for interrupting... But I really wonder what this word has to
do with gambling? From http://www.google.com/search?q=xindice:

1. www.dbxml.org
2. sourceforge.net/projects/cfxindice
3. jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/xml-xindice.html
4. gump.covalent.net/log/xml-xindice.html
5. www.tbradford.org/dbxml
...


Just lurking over here,

Vadim

Re: [OT] Why not keep the name dbXML????

[Kimbro Staken <ks...@dbxmlgroup.com>]

> Sorry for interrupting... But I really wonder what this word has to
> do with gambling? From http://www.google.com/search?q=xindice:
>

It doesn't have anything to do with it, but someone broke it down as 
X-in-dice and proposed a logo with an X in between two dice. It was 
pointed out then, that dice has a gambling connotation and that people don'
t usually like to gamble with their data. Prior to that no one had noticed 
this and that is why I don't really think it is an issue as long as we don'
t use that logo (we're not).

The genesis of the word is in the Italian and Spanish word for index which 
is indice. In english the plural form of index is indices as well. Since 
indices are a big part of a database, I thought it kinda made sense. The X 
was added for the XML connotation and to make the word completely unique.

> Just lurking over here,
>
> Vadim
>
>
>
>
Kimbro Staken
XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing
http://www.xmldatabases.org/