[Kamailio-Users] Project continuity and near future.

[Alan Crosswell]

See also "wiki" for another cool Hawaiian word.

Alex Balashov wrote:
> On Mon, July 28, 2008 1:59 pm, Henning Westerholt wrote:
> 
>> nice associations. :-) In constrast to the old one is the new name
>> probably really exotic. But its surprisingly hard to find a name
>> with free domains, that lacks trademarks and so on.
> 
> This is very true.  Even when things aren't gobbled up as trade names,
> domains tend to be viciously hoarded.
> 
>> And after all, if you look at "akamai",
>> then hawaian words are not that rare in the telco world..
> 
> True, but Akamai is a "web economy"-oriented company.  These kinds of
> names are more kosher in hyper-caffinated, Hawaiian shirt-wearing
> Silicon Valley "Web 2.0" market spaces.  Eccentric, eclectic and
> unusual-sounding names derived from foreign words, including from
> African and far Eastern or Pacific indigenous languages or locales,
> have grown to be accepted and fashionable in the web startup world.
> 
> The telecom world, on the other hand, is mostly full of polished,
> slicked-back, surly (or alternately, oily) conservative types in the
> executive and managerial corps, generally of the 40+ age demographic.
> Their lexicon and buzzword bingo formula is very different -- one into
> which "OpenSER" fits quite nicely.
> 
> -- Alex
>