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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by takeda on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:46PM (#15510984)
Even minor things like picking a product name had impact. They also implemented most desirable features (the gotcha was that they were half assed, but if your evaluation was also half assed as is usually done you won't notice it)

I actually chose it back in 2010 project and on paper MongoDB looked better than other databases. MongoDB name as they mentioned originates from Humongous Database giving false impression that it can scale well.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by GenericsMotors on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:26AM (#15514898)
> Even minor things like picking a product name had impact.

They get zero points for this.

It pretty much reads as "Retard"DB in Portuguese, Spanish, and IIRC German.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by sigzero on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:35AM (#15515610)
Not that it is 100% reliable but I put "mongo" in Google translate for all three of those languages and it comes out "mongo". Unless mongo is "slang" in those languages.
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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by GenericsMotors on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:49AM (#15515716)
It is slang, short for "mongoloide".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo

Interesting this isn't the case with English.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by zimpenfish on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:59AM (#15515788)
English would be "mong". Probably because we got lazy with our abusive terms in the 70s and 80s.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mong#English (Etymology 3)

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