Naming ambiguity with Siemens IX

[fgreinacher]

Nice project folks, as a previous member of the AX team I love how things are going 😄

Just wanted to point out that there is a Siemens Open Source project that's also called IX: https://github.com/siemens/ix.

Maybe you want to reconsider the naming of this project to reduce confusion 🤔

[PTKu]

Thanks @fgreinacher! Thanks for opening this issue.
We've noticed that, I think there is still time to change the name at this stage.
Any suggestions are welcomed!

[PTKu]

I like it! SharpAX would express neatly what the project is... we will certainly consider it.
@TomKovac? @Specter-13? @RauerJ?

[Specter-13]

I like it! SharpAX would express neatly what the project is... we will certainly consider it. @TomKovac? @Specter-13? @RauerJ?

This seems pretty interesting, I like it! More ideas I came up with:

• AX-Net
• TwinAX,
• AXTwinSharp,
• AX-netify
• AX-extended

[RauerJ]

@fgreinacher Thank you for the hint! I did not know about siemens/ix...
@PTKu
My personal opinions:

• SharpAX - good
• AX-Net - good (maybe more clear then SharpAX)
• TwinAX - sounds too similar to a product from another company ;) Would not prefer
• AXTwinSharp - a little bit clumsly long
• AX-netify - good and makes sense
• AX-extended - Would not prefer - sounds like AX needs an extension to work with it

Other things that came to my mind:

• AX.NET
• AXsharp or AX# - to show that it is AX connected with C#
• AX2twin or AX2C# - which sounds a little bit like the name of Elon Musk's son :)
• .nAXt - maybe too "creative" - hard to see what is going on if you not know already
• AX-twinify
• twinAXporter

I have forwarded this topic also to our BD/Marketing and will provide their reply here.

[PTKu]

Excellent ideas @RauerJ!
These resonate with me the most

• AX.NET
• AX#

I may be too conservative...
We also will need to see the question of prefixes and namespaces that we will use in the libraries and packages... @TomKovac?

[PTKu]

OK... I was able to get a grip on the following domains:

axsharp.com
axdotnet.com
ax-netify.com

narrowing down the selection... :)

[PTKu]

OK, so we've gone through some pain refactoring the project and renaming it to AX# (AXSharp).
Thanks to everyone contributing to the discussion, in particular to @fgreinacher for opening this topic.