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.
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). 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). 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. My $0.02 Benno