How We're Building a Business to Last

Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by CoreXtreme on Saturday September 16, 2017 @09:03PM (#15267680)

Cockroach in context of resiliency towards Nuclear impact is a great name for this DB. But it doesn't sound serious.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by sealjam on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:56AM (#15268680)

Do you think it sounds less serious than MongoDB?

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by bpizzi on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:49AM (#15268538)

I'm under the impression that this name based aversion is only existing among English native speaking people. Here on the other side of the fence, even if some do know what a cockroach is, I see no gut reactions (but I'm only a single data point).

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by cocktailpeanuts on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:43AM (#15268786)

I can say for sure it's not just for English speaking people.

Rather, I'm actually curious why you think some cultures may even think that cockroaches are OK.

Cockroaches are universally considered as pests all over the world because they ARE pests, that's how they survive. Look up wikipedia to learn more about cockroaches. They have an entire section describing the relationship between humans and cockroaches, mostly about them being a pest.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by icebraining on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:01AM (#15269086)

I read bpizzi's post as saying that, for non-native English speakers, the name doesn't trigger the same aversion because the mental connection between the English name and memories of the bugs is weaker, since we grew up calling them something else. At least that's the case for me, as a non-native English speaker myself.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by throwaway7645 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:16AM (#15268204)

I thought the same thing. I like it, but my company's IT director will never allow it. Maybe they want to target the startups and couldn't care less about the old school companies...no idea.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by npstr on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:56AM (#15268297)

A company basing the choice of its tools on their name deserves to go out of business.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by inimino on Sunday September 17, 2017 @01:37AM (#15268377)

But a company that ignores marketing actually will go out of business.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by npstr on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:57AM (#15268554)

This seems to imply CockroachDB's name would be ignoring/bad marketing? I think it's fine. I see a lot of people saying something along the lines of "if it had a different name I would have looked at it earlier" but honestly I think if it was really named differently with a less remarkable name they would not have noticed it in the first place.

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by inimino on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:09PM (#15272683)

You can see lots of people in this thread alone saying they have an instinctive, visceral negative reaction to the name. If you think that's good marketing, I don't really know what to say...

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Re:How We're Building a Business to Last by throwaway7645 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:38AM (#15269323)

More so, no large company with Oracle & Postgres & mission critical applications serving the nation will go, let's switch to this cockroach thing...it would have to reach critical mass first

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