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“Aurora" is already the name of a cloud infrastructure management product, an open-souce apache project no less: http://aurora.incubator.apache.org/ http://auro
by state_machine 12y ago
“Aurora" is already the name of a cloud infrastructure management product, an open-souce apache project no less: http://aurora.incubator.apache.org/ http://aurora.incubator.apache.org/
Using an existing name for a product in a similar space is just confusing and hurts everyone.
- cr3ative 12y agoTo be fair, I just searched for "aurora software" and "aurora open source" and got nothing for that project on the first page of results. A lot of the good names are already taken; there's going to be overlap, and they're very different products.
- covi 12y agoName-clashing with an Apache project really surprises me. Also, consider the fact that Aurora stems from Mesos, which supposedly Amazon (cloud; although DB people are doing this one) folks have to know.
- t1m 12y agoMichael Stonebraker created a database called Aurora more than 10 years ago. http://cs.brown.edu/research/aurora/ http://cs.brown.edu/research/aurora/
- elwell 12y agoAlso, the first thing I thought of when I saw the word Aurora was the 2012 shooting in Colorado. That's sad that the word is associated with that, but also a facet of the naming consideration.