In one of Jonathan's posts , he revealed how the name Java was arrived upon for the programming language. Let me give you a little more info about the team before jumping on to the email. James Gosling was the lead engineer of the Green Team (Team that created Java) and in picture are some members of the Team. The e-mail below is reproduced verbatim From: James Gosling Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT To: Jonathan Schwartz Subject: How was Java named? The story goes like this: We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name. Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could neither af...