On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Ben Leslie wrote:
Hi Alexander!
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Alexander Staubo wrote:
The name is easier to distinguish for Americans, I think, who pronounce the letter "Z" differently from the character "S". I'm pretty sure Brits don't do this, but I could be wrong. Nevertheless, the verbal resemblance between "Zope" and "soap" is still pretty high.
"Zope on a rope" seems to be a general first American impression of the name. Speaking of a "clean" name...
OK this may be a small problem however I think the fact that Zope is so unique makes it fantastic. All the major search engines that I just tried (Google, AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek) all returned Zope on the first page (well the first hit apart from AltaVista).
Zope is unique. Zope is origional. It is rather odd that php4 is now Zend. :P DC: Don't change a thing, no matter what anyone tells you :)
This is a _real_ advantage. Compare this with trying to find information on some other stuff, such as soap. I spent almost an hour the other day trying to find information on Soap without any luck (if any one has any URLs where I can find information that would be great).
Someone posted this link to SOAP on the Zope list earlier: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/xml/general/soaptemplate.asp And here is the Microsoft SOAP IETF draft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/xml/general/SOAP_V09.asp
SO the point I'm trying to make is that Zope is a great name because it is unique which means its really easy to remember and just about zero chance of confusing it with anything else.
SOAP would be the only thing to really confuse it with. Haven't heard much talk about SOAP interacting with XML-RPC in Zope, or how Zope might implement SOAP later. This confusion should generally help Zope, though, not hurt it. - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@2c2.com> <ian@blenke.com>