Re:Wines, cheeses, trees (Score 1)

At my last job, the systems operators did something like this when they set up the server infrastructure for a new Oracle-based portal solution.

The web cache servers were prefixed "velox", meaning "fast". The production servers were prefixed "renuntio", meaning "to announce" (or possibly renounce :P ). The test servers were prefixed "verbero", meaning "to beat" - I guess they expected the test servers to be in for a beating.

My favorite two instances were the single-sign-on server and the development servers. The single-sign-on server was named "unus", meaning "only one". The systems operators didn't care much for us developers, so they prefixed the development servers "maculo", meaning "to defile" or "to stain" :-P