# Name that software. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181 "2003-04-16T21:59:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/1 "2003-04-16T21:59:10Z")
I have built a custom inventory analysis tool set in MS Access97. I have been calling it Bloodhound for a working title but I would like to find something more “intellectual” sounding. I would prefer a historical or mythical name, a hunter, a seeker of knowledge. Especially if the name can be somehow associated with books and their production and distribution. I would also like to hear the backstory behind the suggested name. Winner gets eternal deification in the DB properties screen as the person who named it. You will eventually be famous in inventory circles within my company. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/2 "2003-04-16T22:14:20Z")
Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, also of hunting, I think. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/3 "2003-04-16T22:26:31Z")
Artemis was goddess of the hunt, I recall. My nomination: Bubo, the mechanical owl from _Clash of the Titans_. He hunts, he finds information, he’s even a machine! ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/4 "2003-04-16T23:34:03Z")
Not mythical or anything, but software in these days ofcouse require either XP or a year in the title - so I nominate: **InventorIT 2004/XP** ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/5 "2003-04-17T00:50:06Z")
How about **Metis**? From [Greek mythology](http://www.hol.gr/greece/titans.htm): > [@](#): > > Metis was the Titaness of the forth day and the planet Mercury. She presided over all wisdom and knowledge. She was seduced by Zeus and became pregnant with Athena. Zeus became concerned over prophecies that her second child would replace Zeus. To avoid this Zeus ate her. It is said that she is the source for Zeus wisdom and that she still advises Zeus from his belly. It may seem odd for Metis to have been pregnant with Athena but, never mentioned as her mother. This is because the classic Greeks believed that children were generated solely from the fathers sperm. The women was thought to be nothing more than a vessel for the fetus to grow in. Since Metis was killed well before Athena’s birth her role doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/6 "2003-04-17T01:15:36Z")
Bubo and Metis! This is the kind of stuff I am looking for! These are both worthy of consideration…keep them coming folks. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/7 "2003-04-17T01:43:40Z")
You might want to bypass Bubo, since it also means: “An inflamed, tender swelling of a lymph node, especially in the area of the armpit or groin, that is characteristic of certain infections, such as bubonic plague and syphilis.” (American Heritage Dictionary) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/8 "2003-04-17T02:32:25Z")
Details, details. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/9 "2003-04-17T04:35:57Z")
If not Bubo, how about Bilbo? ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/10 "2003-04-17T05:22:58Z")
And if not Bilbo, maybe Dildo. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/11 "2003-04-17T06:08:49Z")
Obsolete. Well, you did say it was written in Access 97. ::flee:: My other two thoughts are Orion and Chuck. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/12 "2003-04-17T15:33:30Z")
Access97, did you say? Then the only possible choice can be Hindenburg. :d&r: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/13 "2003-04-17T17:27:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gotpasswords \* > \*\*Obsolete. > > Well, you did say it was written in Access 97. ::flee:: > > My other two thoughts are Orion and Chuck. \*\* Yeah, I know…I can only work with the tools they give me, if I required 2K or XP most of my co-workers would not be able to use it. I am still a DB newb anyway so its not like 97 is straining at the seams from my L33t uber code. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/14 "2003-04-17T17:42:36Z")
**drachillix** , it’s not that Access 97 is obsolete, it’s that it’s dangerously buggy. Access 97 databases have a tendency to irretrievably explode after a few months (or sometimes years) of operation. When this happens, there is not much you can do to fix them. Access 2000 seems to be a bit better about this, but I’ve still seen it go poof. Making backups won’t help much because the failure is gradual and is generally not noticed until it is far too late. You might have to go back months to find an unfailed version of the database. This is why nobody with any sense runs a business-critical database application in Access without a back end database engine (either another Access database or, preferably, some form of SQL server such as MS SQL or Oracle or whatever). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/15 "2003-04-17T21:00:46Z")
How about **drachillix**? or how about **AAPIMTATIW** for **A** n **A** ccess **P** rogram **I** **M** ade **T** o **A** nalyze **T** he **I** nventory **W** ith ---
**Author:** ![PhuQan\_G\_Nyus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@PhuQan\_G\_Nyus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhuQan_G_Nyus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/16 "2003-04-17T21:02:40Z")
C.I.A. Toolset ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/17 "2003-04-17T21:07:41Z")
You meant, of course, “An Access Program I Made With Which To Analyze The Inventory”. The “I Made” is optional, should you prefer “AAPWWTATI” to “AAPIMWWTATI”, which I do. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/18 "2003-04-17T21:15:12Z")
Mentat. Probably copyrighted, though. Igor. “Yes, master; the data is coming, master… please wait…” ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/19 "2003-04-17T21:21:39Z")
**Ethilist** , you can’t copyright a name; you can only trademark it and the scope of trademark protection on names like that is pretty narrow. ---
**Author:** ![Locust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locust)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-software/169181/20 "2003-04-18T07:32:14Z")
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