Re: [hobbit] Goodbye "Hobbit", hello "Xymon"

["Sanu Mathew" <mathew.sanu (at) gmail.com>]

Hey Henrik,

The name sounds good, i will have a special feeling to it, for various
different reasons. I am looking forward for many more
things/changes/turnovers with Xymon.

Regards,
Sanu

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote:

> In <200811081334.13063.stef.coene (at) docum.org> Stef Coene <
> stef.coene (at) docum.org> writes:
>
> >On Saturday 08 November 2008, Henrik St=F8rner wrote:
> >>
> >> As of today, the official name is "Xymon" (pronounced just
> >> like "Simon").
> >
> >It sounds nice.
>
> I'm glad you like it.
>
> >Why have you choosen for Xymon ?
>
> It's really just a name that popped into my head one
> morning, and it sounded "right".
>
> It also fits with the criteria I listed back in August
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/08/msg00193.html :
> No clashes with Tolkien or existing book/movie characters;
> it isn't trademarked; it's short and easily pronouncable;
> and the relevant domains were all (mostly) available.
> (xymon.net wasn't, but I can live with that).
>
> That it ends with "mon" is also a plus, that seems
> reasonable for "mon"itoring software.
>
> And I can just hear everyone shout "what does Xymon
> say?" when there's an outage. Sorry 'bout that, if you
> happen to have a Simon on your admin team :-)
>
> Finally, the ultimate sys-admin - the BOFH ! - was created
> by a Simon: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
>
> (Just joking about that last one).
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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