First of all, the reason its not called the CRM is because of the abundance of terms
that are commonly abbreviated to those three letters.
The Pacemaker name came from Kham
, a good friend of mine, and was originally used by a Java GUI that I was prototyping in early 2007. Alas other commitments have prevented the GUI from progressing much and, when it came time to choose a name for this project, Lars suggested it was an even better fit for an independent CRM.
L'idea su basa sull'analogia del ruolo di questo software con il piccolo dispositivo che mantiene il cuore umano in grado di pompare. Pacemaker controlla il cluster ed interviene quando necessario per assicurare il buon funzionamento dei servizi che fornisce.
There were a number of other names (and acronyms) tossed around, but suffice to say "Pacemaker" was the best