Judging by my searches this morning it seems that Marketing lectures

are a common vector for the Nova myth.

Many years ago, a product I worked on had the unappealing internal name of UFFE (User Friendly FRont End). The first three characters are the acronym of a Loyalist paramilitary organisation, so that was a no go. The preferred choice was GIFT (Graphical InterFace Technology) - implying a present of some sort and also descriptive of what it was. Neat. Unfortunately, while "gift" is also the word for marriage in Scandinavian languages, it's also the word for poison (and in German) ...

We never did find a good marketing name for it; but, anyway, we only ever sold it to NU who sponsored it's development.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on October 20th 2006 at 10:09:53

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Arganth and Hull Canary (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 20, 08:28:54
- let me know (General Chat) - Hull Canary, Oct 20, 08:53:55
  - Novas and Pintos (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 20, 09:30:58
    - cheers... I was told both of them by lecturers at uni (General Chat) - Hull Canary, Oct 20, 09:56:34
      - Judging by my searches this morning it seems that Marketing lectures (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 20, 10:09:53
  - Just to muddy the waters. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 20, 09:23:32
    - Classic urban myth mutation (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 20, 09:33:55
    - 9 mins... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Oct 20, 09:24:47
  - Where is the thread this realtes too?? (General Chat) - Auckland Rob, Oct 20, 09:09:08
    - do a CTRL+F and find Pinto - it's just down this page a bit (n/m) (General Chat) - Hull Canary, Oct 20, 09:16:28

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