I think that the naming of companies and products is less important than people think, especially the marketing people. Think of some well known companies today like Google, Twitter or IBM.<p>Google is a made up word that derives from Googol, but how many people would have heard of Googol. Twitter has always seemed a dumbass name to me, although this is down to my personal subjective opinion. IBM has no meaning because it is an acronym and most people will not know what the letters stand for.<p>If the product is good the name will stick no matter what. The writer spent a lot of time working on the name but we will never know if the OS would have been just as successful with a different name. I suspect the name had nothing to do with it.