Lame name options IMHO
I would have chose a coffee theme like cappuccino.
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'"Robusta" could have been nice: it is a variety of the coffee plant, and also associates with robustness, something one wants in an enterprise platform.'
I was under the impression that what people wanted in an enterprise platform was expensive bloat and job preserving complexity.
"I was under the impression that what people wanted in an enterprise platform was expensive bloat and job preserving complexity"
That's why Spring and Hibernate were invented. To teach those who though a select query couldn't be a time consuming processor hammering nightmare a lesson. The software equivalent of chopsticks - in my case at least :-)
'"Robusta" could have been nice: it is a variety of the coffee plant, and also associates with robustness, something one wants in an enterprise platform.
Except Robusta are the cheaper, bitter coffee beans used for instant coffee that have a higher caffeine content and kick your arse.
"I would have chose a coffee theme like cappuccino."
Tbh thats a fairly obvious choice and unsurprisingly someone already thought of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappuccino_(application_development_framework)
I doubt there are many coffee themed names that haven't been used. You'd probably have to settle for something like skinnyflatwhitesoyatasteslikefloorsweepingsinpus
It was foisted on the US public during WW-II so the GIs could get the "real" stuff (not sure they did.)
In the 70's (when I sorta grew up) it was touted as healthier - just like carob was better than chocolate. Hah!
It is also highly touted in NOLA but usually backed by real java.
Chicory has a very new-age ring to it, don't you think. And the releases could start at Chic-1.0.0.0.
It was foisted on the US public
One of the many things where USA and Russia are much more alike than people would like to admit. Literally same story up to the 70-es. As a result anyone who wanted real coffee had to get green Cuban beans by various semi-illicit channels, roast them and grind them by themselves. The smell of freshly roasted coffee beans early in the morning... It smells like...
You can still have it hoisted on you today by the way. If you are unfortunate to go to the more obscure corners of Greece you need to carry a Bialetti and at least 1kg of ground to sustain yourself. The coffee in the cafanas as well as the stuff in nearly all small hotels is all spiked with shit and practically undrinkable.
So if you want to draw a connotation that it is something vile and vomit inducing chicory would be a good choice.
"Literally same story up to the 70-es"
Whereas 80-s brought along some improvements. 1) After years of experiments, our glorious research institutes had developed a range of coffee substitutes (rye and other grains + chicory) that were quite, but not entirely unlike coffee. With copious amounts of Armenian brandy to go with it they were almost drinkable.
(side note: while trying to hunt down images of these chicory products I discovered that chicory is now being touted as a health product. Fuckity fuck.)
2) And now the real bombshell. In 80's, in Soviet Russia, in actual stores that were accessible for ordinary people, there were real Arabica coffee beans for sale!!!
Granted, they were sold for a princely sum of 20 roubles per kilogram, while ordinary engineer could earn about 120-130 roubles in a month. But still, anyone could have some if they so desired. Eat your hearts out, capitalist running dogs!
Heh... yea, that stuff was sold as "coffee" after (likely also during) the war in Germany as well. The 80s saw strong marketing of rye-based alternatives as the healthy option. #'em, I need the caffeine!
Remark: the salad stuff is (closely) related to it but not the same plant. TBH after they crossbred out the bitterness I like it much less... The old stuff wrapped in ham and cooked in a white sauce (gratinated with cheese!) was just great!
The coffee in the cafanas as well as the stuff in nearly all small hotels is all spiked with shit and practically undrinkable.
That must because it all comes out of a huge tin with a 'Nescafe' label on it.
The same goes for large parts of S. America and Africa. Even in places where they grow Coffee, you seem to get served luke warm dishwater instead of the real thing.
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Name it Jawa. Then the whole language becomes JawaEEz. And thus the community is revealed as "small hooded creatures with glowing eyes".
Some of the brightest people are scarfed up into those lumbering crawlers and then are never seen again, at least, not in unbroken form.