<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">May I propose an alternative? "Open Telecom Platform: An Unexpected Journey."<div><br></div><div>- Chris</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 12, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Sean Cribbs <<a href="mailto:sean@basho.com">sean@basho.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">The inimitable Garrett Smith has also provided us a (politically-incorrect) alternative: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ</a><div><br></div><div>
You may know Garrett from his previous works, "MongoDB is Web-Scale" and "Node.js is Bad-ass Rockstar Tech".</div><div><br></div><div>Take everything in the video with a grain of salt and sense of humor. :D</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Gustav Simonsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gustav.simonsson@gmail.com" target="_blank">gustav.simonsson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Let's make it more appealing to startups and the agile folks: Organic Technology Paradigm shift.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM, kraythe . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kraythe@gmail.com" target="_blank">kraythe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am a newbie to Erlang so pardon if the question comes off as impertinent. However, as I read more into OTP and see the power it has, I am more and more irked by its name. The Open Telephony Platform seems to be a little limited and I wonder if it would put off people trying to adopt Erlang for other use cases. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering wouldn't it be better to call it the Open Technology Platform? The same initials can be used, but the understanding would be that the platform would be a general purpose library (which it is) useful for many endeavors, not just writing a phone switch. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sure it might seem trivial but any marketing guy will tell you, naming is sometimes everything. So am I nuts here? </div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">
<b>Robert Simmons Jr. MSc.<br></b></div></div></div>
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