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Okay, this is definitely NOT a tech question, but I'd really love to know. Why is Jboss named Jboss? dug around this thing called internet and couldn't find much. (I get the J=java part)

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closed as off topic by Wooble, skaffman, David, Eugene Mayevski 'EldoS Corp, Michael Petrotta May 11 '11 at 18:04


J=Java, boss=The only guy who wants you to use it :) –  Chris May 11 '11 at 18:02
JBoss was originally called EJBOSS, EJB OSS, Enterprise Java Beans Open Source Software. Sun then asked the project to not use EJB in its name. They, then, removed the initial E, becoming JBOSS. After that, it was "renamed" to JBoss. –  jpkrohling May 12 '11 at 7:35

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