How about Squeak 4.0?

On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 08:04 PM, Doug Way wrote:

>
> Sarkela wrote:
>>
>> Bisquick??? Frosty Cuddles!!! I'm *terrified*. ;-}>
>> How about keeping it simple.
>>
>>     SWTSqueak or SWT-Squeak
>>
>> That would simply indicate a Squeak world tour base.
>
> Simple is good.  But it needs to be at least a little bit catchy and 
> memorable, too, which SWT-Squeak is not.  (And six syllables is way too 
> many, IMHO.)
>
> Also, it might be better for the name to try to summarize what it is, 
> not how it came to be.  The Squeak World Tour is a great name for the 
> process of creating this product, but I don't know if it's a great name 
> for the product itself. (a bit confusing, actually)
>
> On the other hand, the name doesn't necessarily *have* to try to 
> summarize what it's about... sometimes a random, catchy name (without 
> negative or misleading connotations) is just fine.  Someone mentioned 
> "Tiger Squeak"... I have no idea what it means, but it has kind of a 
> nice ring to it.  And the notion of a powerful animal such as a tiger 
> making a squeaking noise is somehow interesting.  Maybe. :)  And an 
> animal does lend itself to easy promotion... a la Linux and the penguin.
>
> But if we do want the name to try to summarize what it's about, some of 
> the suggestions like Business Squeak, Squeak Professional, Enterprise 
> Squeak, or Modular Squeak might make sense.  Any one of these could 
> have a short version of the name, too... e.g. if the full name was 
> Business Squeak, the nickname could be BizSqueak (which I think is 
> pretty clever).  Or, Squeak Professional a.k.a. SqueakPro, or 
> Enterprise Squeak a.k.a. eSqueak (although e-XXXXX is a bit overused 
> and annoying by this point), or Modular Squeak a.k.a. ModSqueak.  
> (Actually, ModSqueak sounds kind of neat... are you a Mod, or a Rocker?)
>
> Anyway, I think any of the above names might be good.  I think I might 
> like ModSqueak or BizSqueak the most, but your mileage may vary.  
> (People who don't like those names could refer to it by the equivalent 
> full name, Modular Squeak or Business Squeak.)
>
> Also, I don't think any of these names would reflect badly on the 
> regular Squeak Central version of Squeak.  Whereas something like Power 
> Squeak or Stable Squeak might make the SqC version sound inadequate by 
> comparison.  (Well, possibly SqueakPro might do this, but then the 
> opposite of Professional is not necessarily Amateur.)  And of course 
> Squeak Central is not going to change the name of what they're working 
> on based on what we name this thing, anyway. :)
>
> Okay, I've obviously written too much on this already.  Of course John 
> Sarkela & the folks working on the stable Squeak thingy have the final 
> say in what they want to name it.  But I think coming up with a good 
> name is worth at least a little bit of thought.
>
> - Doug Way
>   dway at riskmetrics.com
>