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Proposed Name

Abbr.

Pros

Cons

Apache OpenOffice.org

AOOo

We already have the trademark on "OpenOffice.org"
Continuity with the legacy name of 11 years
Makes it easy to remember URL for website

Too long - 8 syllables
The ".org" naming scheme was popular circa 2000, but now is dated

Apache OpenOffice

AOO

A shorter name that respects the project's roots

Could conflict with the general brand "OpenOffice" which is registered in a few countries, legal needs to be involved

Apache Open Office

AOO

Of the options mentioned, this has the largest number of hits.
This choice would be first in the list of "Open" TLPs (see list below).

 

Apache Office

AO

 

No recognition that this is a software product, could be also understood as an official instance of the Apache Foundation.
Could be a version of Microsoft Office.

Apache Office Suite

AO AOS

An accurate description of the product

 

Position on www.apache.org project list

Here are the projects that start with N, O and P. Any of the above names would be put into this list in sorted order once the project is a TLP:

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Number of hits from famous websites for found name matches

Google Trends Last Year(2011-01-01 until today) shows search hits for "openoffice.org", "openoffice" and "open office" in a big chart but also splitup to region, cities and Languages.

Name

Hits

Google hits

2011-11-05

OpenOffice.org

4,770,000

OpenOffice

41,900,000

Open Office

16,100,000

 

 

Apache OpenOffice.org

171,000

Apache OpenOffice

58,600

Apache Open Office

183,000

Apache Office

29,100

 

 

Wikipedia hits

2011-11-01

OpenOffice.org

53943

Openoffice.org

417

openoffice.org

62

 

 

Open Office

1430

Open office

2640

open office

12

 

 

OpenOffice

683

Openoffice

2546

openoffice

29