BayLISA -> BayISSA

Thu Jun 17 11:35:54 PDT 2004

Often the origin/expansion of acronym's is forgotten and
discontinued, e.g. for the NAG and IMSL mathematical libraries.
These are now trademarks without an advertised expansion.
For that matter, does SAGE still have an advertised expansion?

However, LISA is still expanded on the LISA 2004 home page:

	http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa04/

	"LISA '04 - 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference"

It's never been clear what "Large" meant - a large number of systems or
one large system - but that doesn't seem to matter.  I'm happy with
LISA as a name.

	- Jerry Berkman, UC Berkeley

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Mark C. Langston wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:35:43AM -0700, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
> > Another thing to think about is the exclusivity implies by the acronum
> > 'LISA'.
> >
>
>
> It's my understanding that the expansion of the acronym fell by
> the wayside some time ago, and that "LISA" is no longer expanded.
> At least, that was what I've been given to understand by the
> USENIX folks I've talked to.
>
> As BayLISA's inspired by that conference, both in name and content,
> I see no reason why we couldn't just drop the expansion and keep
> the name.  After all, it's got a certain cachet.
>
> --
> Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
> mark at bitshift.org                                       mark at seti.org
> Systems & Network Admin                                SETI Institute
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>