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A company basing the choice of its tools on their name deserves to go out of business.
by npstr 9y ago
A company basing the choice of its tools on their name deserves to go out of business.
- inimino 9y agoBut a company that ignores marketing actually will go out of business.
- npstr 9y agoThis seems to imply CockroachDB's name would be ignoring/bad marketing? I think it's fine. I see a lot of people saying something along the lines of "if it had a different name I would have looked at it earlier" but honestly I think if it was really named differently with a less remarkable name they would not have noticed it in the first place.
- inimino 9y agoYou can see lots of people in this thread alone saying they have an instinctive, visceral negative reaction to the name. If you think that's good marketing, I don't really know what to say...
- throwaway7645 9y agoMore so, no large company with Oracle & Postgres & mission critical applications serving the nation will go, let's switch to this cockroach thing...it would have to reach critical mass first