tdupont750/Jooq — Issue #1: Product name
Author: lukaseder
Created: 2012-02-05 10:31:45+00:00
State: open

Hello Tom,

I just found your "Jooq" from a random google search.

Your product name (both acronym and its meaning) is very close to mine: http://www.jooq.org. From what I understand, your project is very fresh, whereas jOOQ (as in Java Object Oriented Querying) has been around for 3 years now and is starting to be established in the community of Java/SQL developers...

E.g., its Stack Overflow tag is non-ambiguous:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jooq

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Object_Oriented_Querying

It is being considered by major open source communities:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-86
http://www.opensaga.org/jira/browse/OS-550

See also various DZone articles:
http://java.dzone.com/articles/use-jooq-inside-your-h2
http://java.dzone.com/articles/jooq-meta-%E2%80%9Chard-core-sql%E2%80%9D
http://java.dzone.com/articles/sql2003-window-functions-jooq
http://java.dzone.com/articles/ultimate-sql-dsl-jooq-scala

etc...

Mixing up brand names might lead to confusion to both of our communities:

- People will expect the two products to be affiliated
- People might wonder why your Jooq is not about database querying
- Initially, it may be hard for your Jooq to rise up in Google rankings as I'm working hard on establishing the term jOOQ with blog posts, forum entries, etc...

Any chance you might re-consider your branding? Please, tell me what you think

Cheers
Lukas