[Zope] The name ZOPE (was RE: [Zope] Linux.com community ad)

[Ian Blenke]

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>