Thanks for the quick turnaround. I like the white blocks of a spine accross the top. I think EAP is over-emphasized -- I would like the word Backbone to be more noticeable. I don't think I like the metallic treatment or the purple background. Not sure if I like it being inside of a rectangle or not.
It doesn't have to be a spine. Here are some other words that might inspire ideas: network backbone or internet backbone, infrastructure, platform, framework, architecture. I'd like to see a bit more complexity, like the logotournament logo of the Colosseum. If we keep the spine, maybe do something fancy with EAP like in this logo: https://logotournament.com/images/entries/8609683881-223.jpg
The logos from the other two designers (so far) put EAP beside Backbone and it looks good the way they did it. If you make a logo with text similar to theirs, and the spine along the top (edge to edge) then I will rank it. Thank you
Regarding entry #6 -- nice! I like that it spells out what EAP means below. I would like to see this with the "Oracle font" shown in entry #5, which might need to use color for each word since everything is upper case. I'm not sure if it is OK for me to ask for that since I already told that designer I liked the font and color, but not the logo.
I'm not so keen on that font, and anyway, I don't have it - but I do have something similar, a bit less contrived in my opinion - this is a bit more subtle - and it solves the uppercase problem. I'm going to look at the links you sent now as well. Thanks for the feedback. husk.
Regarding the font, I'm not decided yet. Maybe #7 isn't right, but #6 seems a bit plain to me. Overall I do like this logo. I can imagine a Flash animation where information about different platform features appear as you hover over each of the backbones.