Ross, I thought of the same thing. Hahaha, it seems academicians think along the same lines. Although it seems from Jukka's email that fair amount of consideration went into the decision.
-- Yeliz Eseryel Ph.D Candidate in Information Science & Technology Syracuse University School of Information Studies Teaching Blog: http://enterprisesystems.blogspot.com Recently featured at AOM OCIS: http://ocis.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/future-stars-yeliz-eseryel/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: > 2009/4/20 Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com>: > > As you may have noticed, a proposal for a new incubating project, > > tentatively called Apache Chemistry, is currently being prepared. See > > below for the full wiki source of the current status of the proposal. > > No comments on the proposal, but I do have a comment on the name. > > Coming from the academic sector my heart soared when I saw this name. > I thought there was a proposal that would be of interest to my target > domain. Obviously it doesn't have anything to do with Chemistry. I'm > not objecting to the name (I actually quite like it given what the > proposal is), but I do think it might cause some confusion. > > Ross > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >