<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 30.12.2014 um 19:53 schrieb B.R. <<a href="mailto:reallfqq-nginx@yahoo.fr" class="">reallfqq-nginx@yahoo.fr</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">It seems the original and preferred way to spell it is 'nginx', the one cming from Igor. I am still wondering about capitalizing the name, but since it is to me a personal name, I do not apply rules that would normally affect common names.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Thus, IMHO, I would use 'nginx' wherever it is used, with no capital whatsoever.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">I saw some nginx company-related stuff spelled NGINX, but that is ugly and almost always marketing-related resources. Never trust sales(wo)men to best know the product they sale. ;o)<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>It probably also has to do with the transcription of the cyrillic letters to latin letters.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Also, there seem to be different ways of „capitalization“ in American English and Russian, if you look around the web a bit.</div><div>(My own knowledge of Russian is best described as „extremely limited, bordering the nonexistent“).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m actually glad that Igor and his crew thought about the important things first and didn’t waste time nor money paying a consultant to come up with a „cool“ name (and the accompanying dot-io domain…)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>BTW: not sure if this has been posted, but in a recent marketing-email, I was alerted to this very informative timeline of nginx development:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://nginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Infographic_History-of-Nginx_FulI_20141101.png" class="">http://nginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Infographic_History-of-Nginx_FulI_20141101.png</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>