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Guacamole is way easier to remember than Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway. Also while seeking help it's a lot less characters, so people wouldn't be ann

Guacamole is way easier to remember than Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway. Also while seeking help it's a lot less characters, so people wouldn't be annoyed by typing.

lojack 9y ago
Or, worse yet, what it’d turn into.... Apache CRDG
guhidalg 9y ago
Did you forget the /s ? My eyes must be deceiving me. When I hear Apache Guacamole, I'm thinking of Native American / Mexican fusion food.
davidkuhta 9y ago
It could also be intended to conjuring up imagery of yourself relaxing on an island in the Caribbean drinking a margarita, eating chips and Guacamole. A gateway to a clientless, remote, desktop getaway.
ams6110 9y ago
Disagree. Just because the name is longer doesn't mean it's harder to remember, because "Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway" is much more descriptive. Like GP, the trend over the last decade or so to use meaningless names for tech products is one of my biggest annoyances. Occasionally something gains such enough popularity that it doesn't matter ("Google") but in most cases these names are only meaningful to the people who work with these products every day and for everone else it's alphabet soup.
- wmccullough 9y ago
  But wait! I haven’t told you about Apache Chips yet. The corn release is going to be crispy...
- danellis 9y ago
  No one would call it that, though. It would always be Apache CRDG.
  - mywittyname 9y ago
    Apache WebRD. That's easy to say and descriptive enough.
  - hackeraccount 9y ago
    That. CRDG. Sigh. And I'd be the guy going - What the F is CRDG and why am I supposed to install it? Guacamole is no better but at least I get to enjoy a moment a pleasure thinking about dip before I need to a) Google around trying to figure out what the damn thing is and b) set it up.
- vijaybritto 9y ago
  It would be abbreviated and people would be googling for the abbreviation I think.
- mekal 9y ago
  TIL - They almost named it "BackRub" because it "analyzed the web's 'back links'". Naming stuff is hard right? I remember thinking the name "Google" was a little silly at first but probably because I didn't know wtf a googol was (so didn't make that connection). Instead the first thing that came to my mind was a drooling baby trying to speak. "Apache" is another example of a seemingly meaningless/arbitrary name until u look into it further. So I would agree that "Google" is in the alphabet soup realm, but for some reason I'm cool with it. I'd argue its a few steps above the shameless "Guacamole" type names that have no soul.
- xkcd-sucks 9y ago
  Yeah, especially as "guacamole" memory-fails to "salsa," "avocado" etc. while "Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway" memory-fails to "Apache RDP gateway" or something more similarly descriptive
electroly 9y ago
That would be an amazing name. Tells me exactly what it does, and the acronym "CRDG" is short, and both the name and the acronym would be Googleable.
glhaynes 9y ago
So how about "Apache Clientless"? The name doesn't have to describe the entire functionality of the product, but it's nice for it to have some relevant signifier you can mentally associate with something.

Guacamole is way easier to remember than Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway. Also while seeking help it's a lot less characters, so people wouldn't be annoyed by typing.

lojack 9y ago

Or, worse yet, what it’d turn into.... Apache CRDG

guhidalg 9y ago

Did you forget the /s ? My eyes must be deceiving me. When I hear Apache Guacamole, I'm thinking of Native American / Mexican fusion food.

davidkuhta 9y ago

It could also be intended to conjuring up imagery of yourself relaxing on an island in the Caribbean drinking a margarita, eating chips and Guacamole. A gateway to a clientless, remote, desktop getaway.

ams6110 9y ago

Disagree. Just because the name is longer doesn't mean it's harder to remember, because "Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway" is much more descriptive. Like GP, the trend over the last decade or so to use meaningless names for tech products is one of my biggest annoyances. Occasionally something gains such enough popularity that it doesn't matter ("Google") but in most cases these names are only meaningful to the people who work with these products every day and for everone else it's alphabet soup.

wmccullough 9y ago
But wait! I haven’t told you about Apache Chips yet. The corn release is going to be crispy...
danellis 9y ago
No one would call it that, though. It would always be Apache CRDG.
- mywittyname 9y ago
  Apache WebRD. That's easy to say and descriptive enough.
- hackeraccount 9y ago
  That. CRDG. Sigh. And I'd be the guy going - What the F is CRDG and why am I supposed to install it? Guacamole is no better but at least I get to enjoy a moment a pleasure thinking about dip before I need to a) Google around trying to figure out what the damn thing is and b) set it up.
vijaybritto 9y ago
It would be abbreviated and people would be googling for the abbreviation I think.
mekal 9y ago
TIL - They almost named it "BackRub" because it "analyzed the web's 'back links'". Naming stuff is hard right? I remember thinking the name "Google" was a little silly at first but probably because I didn't know wtf a googol was (so didn't make that connection). Instead the first thing that came to my mind was a drooling baby trying to speak. "Apache" is another example of a seemingly meaningless/arbitrary name until u look into it further. So I would agree that "Google" is in the alphabet soup realm, but for some reason I'm cool with it. I'd argue its a few steps above the shameless "Guacamole" type names that have no soul.
xkcd-sucks 9y ago
Yeah, especially as "guacamole" memory-fails to "salsa," "avocado" etc. while "Apache Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway" memory-fails to "Apache RDP gateway" or something more similarly descriptive

electroly 9y ago

That would be an amazing name. Tells me exactly what it does, and the acronym "CRDG" is short, and both the name and the acronym would be Googleable.

glhaynes 9y ago

So how about "Apache Clientless"? The name doesn't have to describe the entire functionality of the product, but it's nice for it to have some relevant signifier you can mentally associate with something.