Does anyone know? I always assumed it meant "just another Mac fanboy", but I have heard several other... creative interpretations.
Apparently there is some connection with a book called "Gravity's Rainbow"?
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What does JAMF stand for?
+18Best answer by clifhirtle
Totally bringing this question back from the Wayback Machine®. @andyinindy I think you nailed it:
JAMF Software was founded in 2002, and it wasn’t until 2007 that Halmstad and Pearson were comfortable bringing on employees. The name for the company was chosen pretty much at random. It’s a reference to a character in Thomas Pynchon’s novel, “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
+26From what I remember it does have to do with the book called "Gravity's Rainbow", one of the main characters in that book is Laszlo Jamf. More info about that book here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow
+13Just Another Management Framework is what i've heard. Course, I'm just now diluting all the guesses. :)
+8In one of the sessions I was in at JNUC, Chip was asked the question. His response was what rpotvin said about referencing a character in a book name Laszlo Jamf. But considering in the Managing the Unmanageable session Bryson referred to the employees as JAMF's, I'd say it is definitely open to interpretation!
+18All this stuff about Laszlo JAMF is pretty bizarre.
Conditioning infants to get erections??
WTF does this have to do with managing Macs???
+11The greatest of art/literature/etc are never explicit, but allow the user to read into them what they bring themselves. Interpretation and search for meaning brings with an equal level of allure. Just as happy to hear an acronym based on a book as one based on tech. And frankly, just as happy to have JAMF's meaning remain an insider's only secret to the JAMF employee tribe. Bring on the interpretations!
+5Joust Apple Maybe Friday?
The rumor I'm going to start is that it was on Zach's calendar one day and Chip said, "Hey I think I came up with a name for this thing!"
I can write a wikipedia article to support my ridiculous claim taking it from rumor to true story.
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+11Totally bringing this question back from the Wayback Machine®. @andyinindy I think you nailed it:
JAMF Software was founded in 2002, and it wasn’t until 2007 that Halmstad and Pearson were comfortable bringing on employees. The name for the company was chosen pretty much at random. It’s a reference to a character in Thomas Pynchon’s novel, “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
+7That's pretty funny. I recognised it as the name of the character in GR, but always assumed it was (as up thread) Just Another Management Framework.
+18Another interesting fact. Casper comes from the fact that around the same time, Norton Ghost was a widely used product..
+27I've always thought of Casper as the "Friendly Ghost" ;-)
+11While this video is more about how to pronounce Jamf, it's too hilarious not to include here...
Watch as mutiple news outlets butcher Jamf's name on their IPO day (and Dean has a fun "freak out" 🤣
+31So much revisionist history in this thread hahaha. Someone got it right, but I am not gonna repeat it. Also, don't believe everything you read :-P
+10Well, every time we have to roll our own EA, establish a smart group based on it, and scope a policy to that smart group based off the EA, I like to joke that it stands for:
Just Another Missing Feature
Don't get me wrong the flexibility is great, but there's an almost constant feeling that more could have been done. Just like my constant complaint that SCCM didn't have in-the-box support automatically for deploying MS Office and other Microsoft products.
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