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Re: Fwd: OZONE - the name

On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > > Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> > 
> > ozone-db.org is registered by SMB which is a german company. Can a company,
> > which doesn't have a trademark "ozone" registered in germany nor does any
> > business in germany actually cease our .org domain?
> 
> Registering a domain name has little bearing on trademarks etc. You can
> go to slashdot etc. and find articles (Harry Potter names) where the US
> courts? have made people give up domain names to larger companies. Seems
> that time in use and trademarks have priority and even similar names are
> confiscated. The org domain name is handled by ICANN or whomever has
> authority over top level names.
>  
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2667273,00.html
> > 
> > >
> > > Is ozone aligned with Software in the Public Interest or with someone
> > > who has a legal staff?
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> Does SMB have a legal staff that can advise you?
> 
> As for the name, ozone is a management system for objects, not data.
> Objects have behavior and data. Object systems are called Object
> database Management system 
> (ODBMS) to be similar with RDMS. I suggest the Ozone be called Ozone OMS
> for Object Management System or Server and once and for all get rid of
> the overused term data. OBMS would be okay too. Data is nothing without
> context and nothing without behavior and nothing without ... Sorry about
> the rant but I hope people will consider this proposal.

I perfectly agree. The term ODBMS led us to so many confusion. Months ago I
proposed to call ozone an Object Base. Object Server sounds cool too. Perhaps
even better? What about:

ozone - The Open Source Java Object Server ?

Does anybody see _any_ pitfalls with this or should we go ahead and change
this? (all we can do is changing two or three words on the web site anyway)

One thing is that the term "Object Server" is not well defined IMO. Today ozone
is listed in many software collections under ODBMS. This is good or bad but such
links get us more visibility. I'm not sure if people know where to list an
"Object Server". Ideas?


Falko
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