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I agree completely. Similarly, I have no idea why the creators of GIMP and CockroachDB (Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell for the latter) though

I agree completely. Similarly, I have no idea why the creators of GIMP and CockroachDB (Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell for the latter) thought those names were the best possible options.

slededit 8y ago
CockroachDB at least refers to their marketing line of "almost impossible to kill/take down" and the way it scales to many servers. There are few less gross insects they could have used though like Bees or Ants.
- andrewflnr 8y ago
  Bees and ants don't have anywhere near the same rep for invincibility. Only one of those animals is a stereotypical nuclear apocalypse survivor.
  - slededit 8y ago
    They should have went with Water Bears. It can survive even in space. Plus they sound cute (but look scary).
    - mjibson 8y ago
      We have a conference room named Tardigrade.
      - jbs40 8y ago
        But any of those are infinitely better than naming something after a letter of the alphabet. That would be a crazy idea, wouldn't it? (Sorry to all the users of 'R' and 'C' and 'S' and ...) :(
- timrichard 8y ago
  Bee DB is catchy, but would probably violate some sort of Buck Rogers IP
erikpt 8y ago
GIMP is an acronym (backronym?) for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. So I guess to blame GNU if you’re not a fan of GIMP’s name.
EdwardDiego 8y ago
I actually thought that CockroachDB had some relation to Apache Kafka from the name (like Apache Samza does). But nope!