We should be very happy that somebody invented the "NoSQL" name. Once things have a name people can start to talk about this things, and the ideas will move faster.
This recent hype about the NoSQL stuff was only possible because there was a name :)
This recent hype about the NoSQL stuff was only possible because there was a name :)
Yet it may be coincidental but that seemed to coincide with the time that using an XMLHTTPRequest took off.
Maybe the branding worked?
Still there is something "magic" in this process. Once you get a name for one thing, it starts to get much more obvious. For instance think at the "web 2.0" or "Ajax" cases. NoSQL, in the name itself, is the negation of something else, and this allowed to collect a number of different projects under this name.