Wednesday, October 29, 2003
One suffix to rule them all
As of this yesterday, Handspring is no more. The company has merged with Palm. The new entity is known as palmOne. The Palm OS portion of Palm has been spun off as PalmSource.
What's with the "One" suffix for names? We've had Netscape One, JavaOne, SunOne and now palmOne. In some cases, there's a claim "One" is an acronym but I think it's just supposed to sound cool. Likewise, there's the continued use of camel case in names. Reliance on camel case is going to cause pronunciation problems among the non-technorati. Hey buddy, where can I buy a Pal Mo Nee?
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