Πως η Java πήρε το όνομα της!

 1[QUOTED TEXT FROM J.SCHWARTZ'S BLOG](https://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/better_is_always_different)
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 3[From: James Gosling **Date:** August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT **To:** Jonathan Schwartz
 4**Subject:** How was Java named?](https://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/better_is_always_different)
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 6The story goes like this:
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 8We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown
 9attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved.
10We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name.
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12Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could
13neither afford the price nor the time of a conventional product naming process. He agreed to do something rather odd,
14but effective and quick: he acted as a facilitator at a meeting where about a dozen of us locked ourselves in a room for
15an afternoon. He started asking us questions like "How does this thing make you feel?" (Excited!) "What else makes you
16feel that way?" (Java!) We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a sorting
17process where we ended up with a ranking of the names. We ended up with a dozen name candidates and sent them off to the
18lawyers: they worked down the list until they hit one that cleared their search. "Java" was the fourth name on the list.
19The first name on the list was "Silk", which I hated but everyone else liked. My favorite was "Lyric", the third one on
20the list, but it didn't pass the lawyers test. I don't remember what the other candidate names where.
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22So, who named Java? Marketing organized the meeting, the consultant ran it, and a whole pile of us did a lot of yelling
23out of random words. I'm honestly not real sure who said "Java" first, but I'm pretty sure it was Mark Opperman.