"[…]he wanted to name the project after an animal. He came up with Tomcat since he reasoned the animal represented something that could fend for itself."
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From Apache Tomcat History at Wikipedia.
Today a workmate translated Tomcat literally to Spanish as “Gato Tom”, and my WTF was partially wrong. Seems the right meaning is “alley cat”.
Sometimes is interesting to know why the things are named as they are named.
