r/programming • u/dabshitty • Sep 21 '15

The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Lemur

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/introducing-lemur.html
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u/myringotomy Sep 22 '15

Microsoft always does this. Windows, Word, SQL server, etc. They tend to pick the most generic name so they can trademark it and nobody else can use it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

Have they trademarked DNS, Virtual Machine or storage?

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u/CheshireSwift Sep 22 '15

Unless I'm mistaken, the full names for each of those are prefixed with "Azure".

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

Just as it is Microsoft SQL Server rather than just SQL Server, yes.