Renaming JavaRebel

July 14, 2009
David Booth
193 comments

To start: A quick announcement before the big one.

JavaRebel has broken its own revenue records 3 times in the last 6 months – We’d like to thank everyone who has picked up a license for themselves, their team, and their entire company. We’re glad to see so many people interested in the quick productivity improvement that JR provides, and though we have a long way to go, it’s rewarding to see that we’ve contributed something valuable for a lot of people!

Unfortunately, we have a ~~little~~ potential hurdle coming our way….. in the form of corporate lawyers ;-)

Short story made shorter: We have been asked to remove the word “Java” from “JavaRebel”. You’ve probably heard this story before, so we won’t get into it.

Nothing to see here folks, please move along

Anyone who knows what it’s like to come up with a name for an internal, open source, or commercial project, let alone a name for a child (personal favourites: Jermajesty, Kyd, and Blue Angel) knows how hard it can be. RE-naming something close to you comes with extra challenges of its own.

So, for a giant community experiment, we’d like to open up the renaming of JavaRebel to you.

Here are our top considerations:

There are at least a few people out there who are already familiar with the name “JavaRebel”. We’d like to make the transition as easy as possible on them.
Almost ALL the traffic to our site comes from people who have linked to us using the name “JavaRebel”, or from direct searches for “JavaRebel” or “Java Rebel”.

Some of our thoughts revolve around keeping the word “Rebel”, and others are more open. What do you suggest? Any ideas? Please submit your ideas here. If we go with your name, we’ll give you a lifetime license of JavaRebel.. err.. whatever we call it :-)

Here are a couple ideas to get things started:

JRebel
JayRebel
JadeRebel
KavaRebel (Kava means coffee in czech – coffee, java, get it?)
LavaRebel (goes with the whole HotSwap, HotDeploy type naming convention.. but hotter :-)
FireRebel
Liberica
LibeRebel
Rebel++
LymeRebel
RebelHQ
SpeedLoader
Espresso
Caffeine

Thanks! I assume this is going to be a rather painful process, but we’ll make it through with your help! (wow.. that sounds SO lame. If I was in highschool, I’d get beat up for that :-)

Muchas gracias,

Dave

PS – Thanks to Sir_Edw for the Santa / Secret Service pic

David Booth

The CEO of ZeroTurnaround, you'll find him at nearly every Java conference, beer in hand. Known for saying, "Wow. Last year was exciting. THIS year is gonna be even MORE exciting. ZeroTurnaround rocks." When not in the office or on the road, he spends time gardening, reading, sampling hoppy beverages, running, and training his Hungarian Vizsla, Mako. You can connect with David on LinkedIn

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