The DeRailed Challenge

[kris]

Kevin Bealer wrote:
> Brad Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Robby wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>> I agree, and don't like the DeRailed name.  It would serve no purpose any
>> longer, if the project were to far surpass RoR in 
>> feature/function/acceptance.
>>
> 
> In addition to this, there is the 'mainstream acceptance' problem.  Most 
> business folk would be reluctant to something like "the gimp", "dapper 
> drake" or "estupido" as a publically visible name.  Not necessarily that 
> they don't get the humor aspect, but the basic fact of business is that 
> you need to interface both with people who have or 'get' your sense of 
> humor and those who don't.  You simply can't afford to cut out the 
> second group.
> 
> "Ruby on Rails" is an upbeat name, 'DeRailed' is a cool name to people 
> like me, but would implies a 'failed project' to a lot of people, 
> unfortunately.  This won't be important to CIOs, but it will be 
> important to marketing and would probably keep someone like Chase 
> Manhattan from ever putting a "powered by derailed" sticker on their 
> website.
> 
> (For that matter, if someone I didn't know at a party asked me how I did 
> a painting, I would say "the gnu image manipulation program" and 
> probably not mention the acronym.)
> 
> Kevin


It's just a "working" name; nothing more. There's plenty of time to 
change it :)