<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Are you sure that 'T' in OTP stands for "Telephony"?<div><div><div>I've been under an impression it stood for "Telecommunications" or "Telecoms".</div><div>And I agree -- it is trivial, and do not agree that naming is everything... otherwise, no-one sane will name a computer company after a fruit.</div><div><br></div><div>V/</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><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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