Comments on: Product Naming Blues: Sixent, Workamajig, Publishit, Nahalem

By: Mitch Brisebois

Mitch Brisebois — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:39:07 +0000

Naming sure hits nerves! Imagine the reaction when I tell people I worked on Vista. (“no, not that vista!”)

For years, when you Googled “sensorymetrics” you got “do you mean sensormetrics” We’re one vowel away from a sensor company.

The internet is tricky that way! It’s a jungle – damn you, Al Gore!

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:02:57 +0000

Gee Melany, dont think it was the prononciation that was the issue, just the sound of it. it sounds like sites my mother doest go to.. haha personally the name doesnt rally bother me.

By: Marnie Douglas

Marnie Douglas — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:59:27 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for writing about Nahalem. We’re very excited about the product and we trust that customers will come to recognize the name and the benefits it offers.

For further information please contact our analysts at
http://www.intel.com/feedback.htm

By: Melany Gallant

Melany Gallant — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:47:46 +0000

To clarify, Ramius’ enteprise and consumer product is called Sixent and Sixent Enterprise respectively. It is not “sexent” nor does it have any affiliation to a site with that name.

We do recognize the difficulty people have in pronouncing it. We’re working on a solution. In the meantime, the site is http://sixent.com.

Thanks, Melany (Ramius)

By: Marelena

Marelena — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:06:37 +0000

Publishit… hahaa. Sortof describes the reality of the publish or perish attitude in colleges

and that sexent site. free web cam girls. where are the web cam boys. given the name these guys are not serious about enterprise of government. i guess it doesn’t matter though if they redirect. but still a clunky name . workamagag!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:09:12 +0000

I went to sexent.com and its not even a very good porn site. lmao. yeah I can’t see enterprise IT approving this. And how do you pronounce nahalem exactly bytheway?

By: John

John — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:42:30 +0000

Great collection of funny business names. I agree, they should have thought these through a little more. I keep misreading publishit, even though I know what it says.