Orleans: Why was the project named Orleans

[danielkrainas]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this but I was just curious of the name choice. Was it just related to how projects within Microsoft are codenamed or was there a specific reasoning behind Orleans?

[alexanderdevoid]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it has something to do with this song ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO1U-V4RmOQ

[gabikliot]

We wanted to save the world from poorly built distributed services, just like Janna d'Ark saved Orleans.

[dVakulen]

@gabikliot Then why didn't you named it "Janna D'ark"?

[alexanderdevoid]

@danielkrainas I thought Sergey would find it funny. Oh well... :D

[gabikliot]

@dVakulen, liability.

[jason-bragg]

I found it funny, but I don't speak .. don't even know the language .. , so I don't think I should count :)

[danielkrainas]

I would have never guessed that, thanks for the insight!

[ReubenBond]

We wanted to save the world from poorly built distributed services, just like Janna d'Ark saved Orleans.

I had no idea that's where the name came from, @gabikliot. I recall that the original app icon was the New Orleans Mardi Gras flag and so I assumed it was named after New Orleans

I like the Joan of Arc inspiration

[sergeybykov]

The general rule for project codenames here is to use geographic names because they aren't trademark-able. "Orleans" was chosen I believe by Jim Larus and Galen Hunt before the project started in earnest.