For what it's worth, I second the concern. The name probably wouldn't prevent me from using it, if it's the right tool for the job, but I definitely find it dis

For what it's worth, I second the concern. The name probably wouldn't prevent me from using it, if it's the right tool for the job, but I definitely find it distasteful. And it's rather incongruous with the very friendly personality you exhibit in dealing with some pretty pointed criticism in the threads here. I can just imagine the dialog: Me: Hey let's check out Gun for this. Team: What's that? Me: A distributed cache data store. Team: Why's it called Gun? That seems kind of violent. What does that have to do with distributed cache? Me: Hell if I know. Perhaps it would be more effective to choose a name that captures the decentralized aspect of the system?