Why Name Alfresco

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We decided to call our company and product Alfresco. Alfresco means 'open air' and 'in the fresh' and there are no bad connotations to the word. We believe the word reflects our values in bringing enterprise content management out into the open and our fresh approach to problems that have yet to be solved.

In coming up with these names, we tried a lot of others as well. Here is the process we went through.

Table of Contents

• 1 Dave


• 2 Paul


• 3 Steve


• 4 Roy


• 5 JohnP


• 6 Andy


• 7 Gavin


• 8 Kevin


• 9 JohnN


• 10 Derek


• 11 Linton

Dave

Top three:

1. airflow (airflow.org for sale)
   
2. anchor (anchor.org seems to be for sale)
   
3. lionshare (lionshare.com is taken, but looks as though it could be bought from them)
   

Others:

1. avalanche
   
2. arcon
   
3. arkon
   
4. accolade
   
5. altitude
   
6. avorto
   
7. aeroplone
   
8. asyntu
   
9. avolved
   
10. adapten
    
11. adjustum
    
12. authoron
    
13. ostrich
    
14. airlift
    
15. allegra
    
16. avedis
    
17. avril
    

Paul

1. Crisp
   
2. Alfresco
   

1. andsome
   
2. alfresco
   
3. actonit
   
4. abduce
   
5. abaxial
   
6. absolve
   
7. abuzz
   
8. acclivity
   
9. acquit
   
10. acrosome
    
11. actin
    
12. agrippa
    
13. actualise
    
14. actuality
    
15. adjoin
    
16. adjust
    
17. affect
    
18. affirm
    
19. aimto
    
20. alate
    
21. albion (taken by individual)
    
22. alethic
    
23. alltoo
    
24. allfor
    
25. already
    
26. alright
    
27. aloft
    
28. apace
    
29. aprise
    
30. arcuate
    

Steve

1. Harmonia (all taken but .org is parked)
   
2. Evoshare: The evolution of content management... (.org available)
   
3. WhipTail - .org free, .com looks parked
   
   
   
4. Kracken - mythical sea creature (.org available)
   
5. Atiraj - Atira means 'Vault-of-the-Sky' -  The Pawnee, Nebraska (all available)
   
6. Jarcasa (all available)
   
7. Perses - son of the founder of Persia (.org available)
   
8. Abalim - a class of Angels (all domains available)
   
9. Abarta - Irish/Celtic God (.com gone)
   
10. Alope (.org available)
    
11. cortex: Connotations with the brain - our content management system is clever/intellegent - it will automatically process the content etc...
    
12. accion: (Spanish for 'share' - just the wrong type of share. As in Share trading... but the word sounds cool)
    
13. Ostara - personification of the rising sun in Anglo-Saxon myth (.org is taken but has a 'click here to buy this domain...' link on it)
    
14. OSC(a)R - Open Source Content (something begining with a - such as aggregation) Repository
    

Roy

1. Hot Toast (.net and .org available)
   
2. Astroraving (.com, .net and .org available)
   

1. Mattervision
   
2. Rustac
   
3. K-Grad or Kaigrad
   
4. Energi
   
5. Acenapt
   

JohnP

1. Freesoft
   
2. Freehub
   
3. Open Media
   
4. Open…..
   
5. Open Actviti
   
6. Caxton
   

Andy

1. Ostiger (Ostiger.com for sale and ostiger.org is free)
   
2. Elevenmonkeys (.com and .org available)
   
3. Ostent (Appearance; air; mien.) (.com and .org available)
   
4. Ostium (An opening; a passage.) (both taken)
   
5. Osunite    Ostenite     Ostone          (Made up open source rock)
   
6. Austenite (“a solid solution‿ of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite)
   
7. Ostenite (The open source solid solution)
   
8. Docible (Easily taught or managed; teachable.) Docity
   
9. Ausform/osform (To subject (especially steel) to deformation, quenching, and tempering to improve its wear properties.)
   
10. Aconos (.com gone)
    
11. Austone
    
12. Toscre or toscar  (The open source content repository – good open source unix naming method there)
    
13. Anoscre or anoscar (best performer J,     OK, well it is AN Open Source Content REpository)
    
14. Anoscent,
    
15. Oscentric
    
16. Coretent (I quite like Steve’s suggestion of cortex)
    
17. Oscilllution (os content solution, probably have to work out what it actually means)
    
18. Agnostore (Store anything)
    
19. Ruefish (red herring)
    
20. Storeos (.com gone)
    
21. Osmedium (Osmium.com  seems to be gone)
    
22. Osmyster   or osmaster
    

Gavin

(in order of preference)

1. Magenta (.org looks like it's registered but not used)
   
2. Corella (co.uk is available, .com and .org are registered but not used)
   
3. AllStore (.org is available,
   
4. Odyssey or Odyssi or Odisi -  An extended adventurous voyage or trip; this certainly describes the company quite well
   
5. ForStore
   
6. Panther
   
7. Jaguar
   
8. Cheetah
   
9. Ares - Greek God of War as we are certainly going to be entering a content management war!
   
10. ContentDepot (as in HomeDepot) - we cater for all your content needs
    

Kevin

These are my top 5 which are available:

1. Diffusion (com domain is 'available to purchase' on the website, org is parked, net #available)
   
2. Dilorico (all available)
   
3. HotToast (net/org available)
   
4. Addit (net available)
   
5. ContentBucket (all available)
   

1. Aphoenix (org available)
   
2. Afenix (org/net available)
   
3. Coolwork (com/net available with holding companies)
   
4. Coolplace (org/net available with holding companies)
   
5. Sabretooth (all taken)
   
6. Diffusion (com/org/net available with holding companies)
   
7. Liberatium (from the Latin: liberate - all available)
   
8. Dilorico  (from the Latin: to open, or specifically to tear open - all available)
   
9. Diloricom  (similar to above, but sounds more techy - all available)
   
10. Basis (org/net available)
    
11. Silverback (then we can use gorillas and monkeys in our logos muahaha, all taken)
    
12. Simia (from the Latin: monkey, all taken)
    
13. Unistore (one content store to rule them all…)
    
14. Cellarius (a storeroom, all taken)
    
15. Eximo (from the Latin: to free, release)
    
16. Exonero (from the Latin: to free, release, relieve)
    
17. Attribem (from the Latin: to give)
    
18. Adesse  (from the Latin: to be present, to support, be favorable to)
    
19. Autem (from the Latin: but on the other hand, however)
    
20. Argentum (means Silver)
    
21. Proditum (from the Latin: to put forth , bring forth; to show, publish)
    
22. Rescindo (from the Latin: break open)
    
23. April (just because)
    
24. Magic (we are wizards, hoho)
    
25. SpellBound (classic spectrum game)
    
26. Core (I dunno I'm making em up now)
    
27. ContentBucket
    
28. Sack'o'Stuff
    

JohnN

1. Airframe
   
2. Fuego
   
3. Amino
   
4. Ascot
   
5. Airstore
   
6. Avion
   
7. Apropos
   
8. BlitzBase
   
9. Aloof
   
10. Aval
    
11. Atoll
    
12. Accent
    
13. Addit
    
14. AltaTerra - the High Ground
    
15. aaron.org
    
16. airversion.org is available.
    
17. airversion.com is available.
    
18. airvision.org is available.
    
19. airbase.org
    
20. aircube.com
    
21. airlogic.com
    
22. airjar.org is available.
    
23. airjar.com is available.
    
24. airbean.org is available.
    
25. airpair.org is available.
    
26. airstair.org is available.
    
27. aerosign.org is available.
    
28. aerobase.org is available.
    
29. airstair.com is available.
    
30. accesslist.org is available.
    
31. airhair.org is available.
    
32. airdare.org is available.
    
33. airsign.org is available.
    
34. airlair.org is available.
    

Derek

1. Perpetuate (.org available)
   
2. Mandarin phonetic variations (all have .org, .com and .cn available)
   
   1. Queshi (pinyin mandarin for reliable)
      
   2. Lilai (Always)
      
   3. JiJiXing (Activity, Enthusiasm)
      
   4. Primadi (Prima-foundation)
      

Linton

1. Air
   
2. ASpace
   
3. AceSpace
   
4. Collabor8
   
5. DigiSpace
   
6. Ether
   
7. OpenAir
   
8. AboutSpace