RE: Jakarta POI

[Rick Williams <rwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 'best' etymology I found comes from http://www.coyotesong.com/poi/ 
excerpted below...

What does POI stand for?

POI stands for Poor Obfuscation Implementation. Why would we name our 
project such a derogatory name? Well, Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document 
Format is a poorly conceived thing. It is essentially an archive structured 
much like the old DOS FAT filesystem. Redmond chose, instead of using tar, 
gzip, zip or arc, to invent their own archive format that does not provide 
any standard encryption or compression, is not very appendable and is prone 
to fragmentation.

Poi is also a Hawaiian delicacy that Merriam Webster's dictionary defines 
as: "A Hawaiian food of taro root cooked, pounded, and kneaded to a paste 
and often allowed to ferment." This seemed strangely descriptive of the 
file format.

So if you like acronyms, then POI is an acronym. If you hate them, then we 
just used the name of the food for our project. If you wish to signify your 
love or hate for acronyms, use POI or Poi to refer to the project 
respectively

-----Original Message-----
From:   Paul Morgan
Sent:   Monday, May 09, 2005 10:53 AM
To:     java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        Re: Jakarta POI

Jon,

It appears the project site was intentionally scrubbed of the original
meaning of the abbreviation -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Jakarta_POI

Paul

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Jon wrote

> Can anyone tell me the meaning/derivation of "POI" in the Jakarta POI
sense.
>
> I can't find anything on the project site and the dictionary comes up 
with
> way too many meanings to guess at which one was intended.
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
> www.Partner400.com
> www.RPGWorld.com



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