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What is descriptive about "RHEL" or "AWS"?
by Joker_vD 4y ago
What is descriptive about "RHEL" or "AWS"?
- smsm42 4y agoAWS was useful until it became to mean "about 9000 totally unrelated products, each of them having its own name, sometimes very non-descriptive". But at least you know it's a service from Amazon, sometimes you don't even get that from the name.
- anonymoushn 4y agoRed Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon Web Services?
- ForHackernews 4y ago"Amazon Web Services" could mean literally anything. It only seems obvious and descriptive because it's become a widely known brand. Compare: "Nile Online Frameworks"
- PurpleRamen 4y agoBut, isn't AWS doing literally everything? No simple name can describe the job 100% after a certain level of complexity anyway.
- lupire 4y ago> Compare: "Nile Online Frameworks" Those are synonyms. What is your point?
- e1g 4y agoI abbreviated on the phone, but the respective full names are “X Enterprise Linux” and “X Web Services” which are literal description of what their thing is. “RedHat” and “Amazon” are generic, but the product names are highly specific. I mean it could’ve been “RedHat Cthulu” and “Amazon RainBox”.
- ForHackernews 4y agoI strenuously dispute that "Web Services" is "highly specific".
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- marcosdumay 4y agoIt is about as specific as the product.