Re: Ironic Project Names

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

A BPCS customer in the 90s had a 'Project Reagan' (B-pics!), but I have a 
global client at the moment who is implementing a project called Albatross! 
Being Norwegian, they probably haven't read Coleridge's Ancient Mariner....

cheers,

Clare

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Hall" <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: Ironic Project Names


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> Pantzopoulos, Michael wrote:
> > I know of a project here in Australia which is code-named 'Daytona'.
> >
> > Unfortunately the project is having some issues and we realized,
> > cynically of course, that Daytona could actually mean 'Go round and
> > round in circles until you crash and burn'. That got me wondering how
> > many other projects are out there have been named in an ultimately
> > ironical fashion. Might take our collective minds off the daily minutae
> > of iSeries problems.
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