Microsoft employee Saeed Noursalehi announced the decision to rename Microsoft's Git Virtual File System (GVFS) due to a conflict with the GNOME Virtual File System (Gvfs) project:
We’ve heard the feedback, so lets use this issue to come up with a new name for this project. As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things. I'm no exception to that pattern, so I was thinking we could all put some sensible suggestions into this issue. I’ll then compile a short list and then we’ll all get to vote on the new name.
Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/72
(Score: 5, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:12PM (6 children)
Word processors are called "Word" by nearly everyone, spreadsheets are called "Excel" by nearly everyone and databases are called "SeQueL" by nearly everyone (including the developers I work with on Oracle DBMSs (WTF?)).
Microsoft will just make this thing part of the MS Git installer that comes with Visual Studio and in a few years nearly everyone (i.e. those surprisingly common developers to whom VS is the only way to program) will just call it "Git" and expect that this "virtual" local copy is how Git is meant to behave.
There'll be all these partial (broken) repo clones on developer machines all over the world and the only valid (full) repos will exist on Github.
Even the build tools will understand this and either download pre-compiled objects for your target for any files you haven't worked on or upload your changes to your "free" Azure storage to compile. FIIK how this will work for things like intellisense but there's $7.5B worth of lock-in coming.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:06AM (1 child)
I modded this 'Insightful', and I fear this is exactly how this will play out, planned or unplanned.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:22AM
From the gitlab Wikipedia page:
"In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by Microsoft[24][25] caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26]."
Will it still be worth that much of most people move elsewhere?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:43AM (2 children)
Sequel was the name of the system that came before SQL.
Calling MS SQL Server "Sequel Server" thus falls in the same category as calling the current Microsoft OS "DOS 10".
(Which would put me on DOS 7, but that's just confusing).
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Thursday June 07 2018, @11:48AM
Semitic roots are typically made of three consonants, one of which is often a Q. The writing systems for Semitic languages often omit vowels, and the reader is expected to guess the vowel based on preexisting knowledge of the spoken language.
People who pronounce "SQL" as "sequel" may be following a similar process to expand SQL into a pronounceable English word.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:37PM
The gospel according to Wikipedia... [wikipedia.org]
So it's not that SEQUEL was the predecessor to SQL. They just renamed it for legal reasons, and it seems very likely that the new name was selected in part because it could reasonably be pronounced the same way.
I'm sure SQL today bears little resemblance to the SQL of 1973, but the same will be true for virtually any language with more than 40 years of history.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:18AM
Microsoft have given up trying to milk hundreds of dollars for licences for visual studio from developers and businesses. It will die. Soon. Replaced by Visual Studio Code ala VSC. Businesses now use gitlab, not github. Although, it's not that hard to push code from gitlab to github. My place has it internally. There is a free community version. Inbuilt wiki and tracking. What's not to love? Far better than Jira.