Comments on: MySQL Toolkit needs a new name

By: William

William — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:02 +0000

nvm see you changed it lol… maatkit

By: William

William — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:37:04 +0000

XaprbKit sounds ok.. phpmyadmin isnt that memorable either but since its widly used … its become a standard..

or XaprbMyKit…

our hosting company sent me a mail yesterday that we can use mysql toolkit to connect to our databases… lol so i fired up the browser and went to mysql’s site to search for mysql toolkit to download.. couldnt find it… it does kinda sound like an official MySQL product

By: Alan Rimm-Kaufman

Alan Rimm-Kaufman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:55:32 +0000

How about “IsaToolkit”?

You know, as in, “it IS A toolkit.”

Joke.

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:53:45 +0000

whoops, got sidetracked — XapToolkit is good, but vague. Tools like Zmanda are also vague in name, but they do enough Google Ads work that if you search for “MySQL Backup” they show up as a sponsored link. Tools like SQLyog at least hint at what it does in the name. So that’s a decision for you to make. You may end up with something like XapToolkit: Xaprb’s toolkit for MySQL.

Of course, thanks to this discussion now I can at least pronounce your nickname: Zap-rib.

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:50:02 +0000

So, there are 2 problems here — the first is the possible infringement, the 2nd is the fact that you want it to be memorable. I think XapToolkit is nice, but you have to make the decision whether or not you want the purpose to be at least hinted at by the name.

“Toolkit for MySQL” isn’t infringment, but it’s hardly memorable (“MySQL Toolkit” isn’t really memorable, either). Why not OurToolkit or OurSQL toolkit? Technocation, Inc. is a heavy user of ‘OurSQL’ but they’ll grant you rights, just talk to me about it…. ;)

Whatever you name it, make sure the “subtitle” is something like “productivity tools for MySQL administrators and developers”. Think of what you’d want if you were looking for this stuff but weren’t aware of the toolkit.

cf, google search for “mysql check replication integrity” and you don’t see the toolkit, but “mysql check replication integrity tool” and it’s on the 4th link down. But still, you want your toolkit high up. Google search for “mysql toolkit” and what comes up first? MySQL’s migration toolkit.

Similar to having “mysqlcommunity.com”, if you’re interested we could buy oursql.com — $900 is the current asking price, but I’ll see what I can do about getting that domain name. It might only take a letter from an intellectual property lawyer, such as http://bakoskritzer.com/ (my brother’s law firm). Sadly, oursql.net and oursql.org are also taken.

What would really be awesome would be a root domain of sql, and then we could have http://www.my.sql !!!!