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Jasper from Karl JAspers?

Martin Baur

2005-08-28, 7:23 am

Hi there

Just curious, how came the name Jasper?

Does it have any allusions to Karl Jaspers?
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anil k goel

2005-08-28, 9:23 am

Think Canadian Rockies...

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"Martin Baur" <tinu@mindpower.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there
>
> Just curious, how came the name Jasper?
>
> Does it have any allusions to Karl Jaspers?
> --
> Martin Baur
>
> MindPower.com, IT-Services

Greg Fenton

2005-08-29, 3:23 am

Martin Baur wrote:
>
> Just curious, how came the name Jasper?
>

The previous two releases were code-named Vail and Banff. I don't know
the codename of v7...

[I wanted to get this out so a search for "SQLAnywhere" and one or more
of Vail, Banff and Jasper gets a hit ;-) ]

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Mark Culp

2005-08-29, 3:23 am

To add to what Anil says:
also think about our previous release code names: Banff and Vail. !

Do you see a trend? :-)
- Mark

Martin Baur wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> Just curious, how came the name Jasper?
>
> Does it have any allusions to Karl Jaspers?
> --
> Martin Baur
>
> MindPower.com, IT-Services

Graeme Perrow

2005-08-29, 7:23 am

Greg Fenton wrote:
> Martin Baur wrote:
>
>
> The previous two releases were code-named Vail and Banff. I don't know
> the codename of v7...

v7 was Aspen. After that, we decided to move from Colorado to the Great
White North. We've talked about using "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump" for
v11, but it's probably too long. :-)

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Graeme Perrow

2005-08-29, 7:23 am

Graeme Perrow wrote:
> Greg Fenton wrote:
>
>
>
> v7 was Aspen. After that, we decided to move from Colorado to the Great
> White North. We've talked about using "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump" for
> v11, but it's probably too long. :-)
>

Duh - Vail's in Colorado too. Sorry, haven't had my tea yet.

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Martin Baur

2005-08-29, 1:23 pm

In article <431272CE.7E5C8D3B@iAnywhere.com>, reply_to_newsgroups_
only_please_nospam_m
ark.culp@iAnywhere.com says...
> To add to what Anil says:
> also think about our previous release code names: Banff and Vail. !
>
> Do you see a trend? :-)

I am Swiss ... how could I know about stems of code names? You would neither if were to call a product Sitter ...

I just know the philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers ... and I wondered how ASA Jasper relates to Karl Jasper's thinking ..

Martin

Breck Carter [TeamSybase]

2005-08-29, 1:23 pm

On 28 Aug 2005 19:28:29 -0700, Mark Culp
< reply_to_newsgroups_
only_please_nospam_m
ark.culp@iAnywhere.com>
wrote:

>To add to what Anil says:
>also think about our previous release code names: Banff and Vail. !
>
>Do you see a trend? :-)
>- Mark

I vote for "Breckenridge" as the next codename :)

Breck

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Breck Carter [TeamSybase]

2005-08-29, 1:23 pm

On 29 Aug 2005 09:48:57 -0700, Martin Baur <tinu@mindpower.com> wrote:

>I just know the philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers ... and I wondered how ASA Jasper relates to Karl Jasper's thinking ..
>
>Martin

It would have to be Jaspers' writings on individual freedom, not his
interest in paranoia, psychosis and hallucinations, or suffering,
conflict, guilt, chance and death :)

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Martin Baur

2005-08-29, 8:23 pm

In article < 1ai6h1liofsg0gfhigv3
ts2c8spoho269f@4ax.com>, NOSPAM__bcarter@risi
ngroad.com says...
> On 29 Aug 2005 09:48:57 -0700, Martin Baur <tinu@mindpower.com> wrote:
>
>
> It would have to be Jaspers' writings on individual freedom, not his

Of course, I assumed only that ... :-)

Martin

Chris Kleisath

2005-09-06, 1:23 pm

Here is the definitive answer on our code names. I created most of them.
The code names are all related to skiing, a favourite pastime of our VP of
Engineering, Dave Neudoerffer.

Whistler - code name for technology that was intended to go into SQL
Anywhere version 6
- A world famous ski resort in western Canada

Aspen - code name for SQL Anywhere version 7
- ski resort and town in Colorado, USA

Vail - code name for SQL Anywhere version 8
- ski resort and town in Colorado, USA

Banff - code name for SQL Anywhere version 9
- National Park, Town, and ski resort in Alberta, Canada

Jasper - code name for next major release of SQL Anywhere
- National Park, town, and ski resort in Alberta, Canada

?? - code name for Jasper + 1 release of SQL Anywhere
- this code name is still undecided.
-> we would like to continue with the "ski" theme, but it has been pointed
out that both Banff and Jasper are perhaps better known as Canadian National
Parks, so perhaps we should change to another National Park, or perhaps an
Ontario Provincial Park.

Chris

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"Martin Baur" <tinu@mindpower.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there
>
> Just curious, how came the name Jasper?
>
> Does it have any allusions to Karl Jaspers?
> --
> Martin Baur
>
> MindPower.com, IT-Services

David Kerber

2005-09-06, 8:23 pm

In article <431ddc78$1@forums-1-dub>, kleisath_nospam_@ian
ywhere.com
says...
> Here is the definitive answer on our code names. I created most of them.
> The code names are all related to skiing, a favourite pastime of our VP of
> Engineering, Dave Neudoerffer.
>
> Whistler - code name for technology that was intended to go into SQL
> Anywhere version 6
> - A world famous ski resort in western Canada
>
> Aspen - code name for SQL Anywhere version 7
> - ski resort and town in Colorado, USA
>
> Vail - code name for SQL Anywhere version 8
> - ski resort and town in Colorado, USA
>
> Banff - code name for SQL Anywhere version 9
> - National Park, Town, and ski resort in Alberta, Canada
>
> Jasper - code name for next major release of SQL Anywhere
> - National Park, town, and ski resort in Alberta, Canada
>
> ?? - code name for Jasper + 1 release of SQL Anywhere
> - this code name is still undecided.
> -> we would like to continue with the "ski" theme, but it has been pointed
> out that both Banff and Jasper are perhaps better known as Canadian National
> Parks, so perhaps we should change to another National Park, or perhaps an
> Ontario Provincial Park.

Probably shouldn't use "Glacier", though! Working at "Glacier" speeds
isn't really the impression you want leave!

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Chris Kleisath

2005-09-06, 8:23 pm

re: Glacier --> we had already made that observation....."glacier", while
powerful, doesn't really give the performance message we are trying to
convey! ;-)

Chris

"David Kerber" < ns_dkerber@ns_wraenv
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> In article <431ddc78$1@forums-1-dub>, kleisath_nospam_@ian
ywhere.com
> says...
>
> Probably shouldn't use "Glacier", though! Working at "Glacier" speeds
> isn't really the impression you want leave!
>
> --
> Remove the ns_ from if replying by e-mail (but keep posts in the
> newsgroups if possible).

Breck Carter [TeamSybase]

2005-09-06, 8:23 pm

On 6 Sep 2005 12:06:43 -0700, "Chris Kleisath"
< kleisath_nospam_@ian
ywhere.com> wrote:

>re: Glacier --> we had already made that observation....."glacier", while
>powerful, doesn't really give the performance message we are trying to
>convey! ;-)
>
>Chris

I still vote for "Breckenridge" which will soon have the "highest
lift" :)... http://breckenridge.snow.com/info/winter/newlift.asp

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Andrew Giulinn

2005-09-06, 8:23 pm

And I guess "Perisher" (snowfields in Australia) would suffer from the same
problem!

"David Kerber" < ns_dkerber@ns_wraenv
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> In article <431ddc78$1@forums-1-dub>, kleisath_nospam_@ian
ywhere.com
> says...
>
> Probably shouldn't use "Glacier", though! Working at "Glacier" speeds
> isn't really the impression you want leave!
>
> --
> Remove the ns_ from if replying by e-mail (but keep posts in the
> newsgroups if possible).

Dave

2005-09-06, 8:23 pm

In article < ipvrh1hf2es6s7kcbaec
sotd9ssbrud68l@4ax.com>,
NOSPAM__bcarter@risi
ngroad.com says...
> On 6 Sep 2005 12:06:43 -0700, "Chris Kleisath"
> < kleisath_nospam_@ian
ywhere.com> wrote:
>
>
> I still vote for "Breckenridge" which will soon have the "highest
> lift" :)... http://breckenridge.snow.com/info/winter/newlift.asp

That's the highest *chair* lift. But I would vote for Breckenridge too;
I've never skied it, but I love the town. I visited there when I went
skiing at Keystone and Arapahoe Basin (which I thought was the highest
ski area in the U.S.)

Breck Carter [TeamSybase]

2005-09-07, 9:23 am

On 6 Sep 2005 16:14:48 -0700, "Andrew Giulinn"
<NO.oscar.SPAM@NOSPAM.dsa.com.au> wrote:

>And I guess "Perisher" (snowfields in Australia) would suffer from the same
>problem!

I think we may have doomed "ski resort" as a source for code names...
that may not be a bad thing, since many did not know how to spell or
pronounce "Bannf", er, "Banff" :)

Breck

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Nick Elson

2005-09-07, 1:23 pm

<just a thought>

Since I believe Canada has lead on the
"UNESCO World Heritage Parks" list
we should maybe go that route; if my vote
counts that is.

For a possible candidates list

http://www.pc.gc.ca/progs/spm-whs/itm2-/index_e.asp

My leading candidates are

Nahanni National Park Reserve
The very first, ever! The park was inscribed on UNESCO's
World Heritage List in 1978. And very proud of that too!
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/nahanni/index_E.asp

Kluane/Wrangell - St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatchenshini - Alsek
The first bi-national entry on the World Heritage list
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/yt/kluane/index_E.asp

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Alberta/Montana
The first international 'peace' park
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/index_E.asp

</just a thought >

<just a 2nd thought>

Waterton-Glacier or just Waterton is much much
bettern that Glacier as a name

</just a 2nd thought ;-) >

"Dave" < ns_dckerber@ns_veriz
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> In article < ipvrh1hf2es6s7kcbaec
sotd9ssbrud68l@4ax.com>,
> NOSPAM__bcarter@risi
ngroad.com says...
>
> That's the highest *chair* lift. But I would vote for Breckenridge too;
> I've never skied it, but I love the town. I visited there when I went
> skiing at Keystone and Arapahoe Basin (which I thought was the highest
> ski area in the U.S.)
>

Andrew Giulinn

2005-09-25, 8:23 pm

Here is a very good reason to move away from codenames based on ski resorts,
especially Canadian ones!

The code name "Blackcomb" was originally assigned to a version of Windows
that was planned to follow Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler"; both named
after the Whistler-Blackcomb resort) in both client and server versions.
However, in August 2001, the release of Blackcomb was pushed back several
years and Vista (originally codenamed "Longhorn", after a bar in the
Whistler-Blackcomb resort) was announced as an intermediary.
<<

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Blackcomb

"Nick Elson" < no_spam_nicelson@syb
ase.com> wrote in message
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> <just a thought>
>
> Since I believe Canada has lead on the
> "UNESCO World Heritage Parks" list
> we should maybe go that route; if my vote
> counts that is.
>
> For a possible candidates list
>
> http://www.pc.gc.ca/progs/spm-whs/itm2-/index_e.asp
>
>
> My leading candidates are
>
> Nahanni National Park Reserve
> The very first, ever! The park was inscribed on UNESCO's
> World Heritage List in 1978. And very proud of that too!
> http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/nahanni/index_E.asp
>
> Kluane/Wrangell - St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatchenshini - Alsek
> The first bi-national entry on the World Heritage list
> http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/yt/kluane/index_E.asp
>
> Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Alberta/Montana
> The first international 'peace' park
> http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/index_E.asp
>
> </just a thought >
>
>
> <just a 2nd thought>
>
> Waterton-Glacier or just Waterton is much much
> bettern that Glacier as a name
>
> </just a 2nd thought ;-) >
>
> "Dave" < ns_dckerber@ns_veriz
on.net> wrote in message
> news:MPG. 1d88057cc7ff17998968
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>
>

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