How to write nginx, NGINX or Nginx?

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Hello. I’m writing some documentation for a project that use NGINX. I’m
wondering what’s the correct way to write nginx.

a) NGINX - Always all uppercase
b) nginx - Always all lowercase. Even at the beginning of a sentence
c) Nginx - Always capitalized

Is there an official way ?

Thanks

–
Simone

Posted at Nginx Forum:

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Thanks

I wondered the same.

Hey, almost to the day two years ago:

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234083,234083#msg-234083

Rainer

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Good. But that questions doesn’t clarify. Event if this post make sense:

–
Simone

Posted at Nginx Forum:

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Hi Simone,

When it’s about the company [1] use “Nginx" and when it’s about the
software use “NGINX".

We’ll look to resolve present inconsistencies.

[1] About F5 NGINX - NGINX

–
Patrick Nommensen

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Hello,

On 12/30/14 9:43 AM, Patrick Nommensen wrote:

Hi Simone,

When it’s about the company [1] use “Nginx" and when it’s about the software use
“NGINX".

We’ll look to resolve present inconsistencies.

[1] About F5 NGINX - NGINX

While I think this is much ado about nothing, I’ve been using nginx
since the 0.6.x line, and subscribing to this list since then as well.
Igor has (or had) always spelled the software “nginx” [0]. This was
the case when he was active on this list as well.

[0] Igor Sysoev

–
Jim O.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the
difference.” - Mark Twain

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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.
Thus, IMHO, I would use ‘nginx’ wherever it is used, with no capital
whatsoever.

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)

B. R.

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Hello,

On 12/30/14 9:43 AM, Patrick Nommensen wrote:

Hi Simone,

When it’s about the company [1] use “Nginx" and when it’s about the software use
“NGINX".

We’ll look to resolve present inconsistencies.

[1] About F5 NGINX - NGINX

See also http://nginx.org/

–
Jim O.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the
difference.” - Mark Twain

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Am 30.12.2014 um 19:53 schrieb B.R. <[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]>:

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.
Thus, IMHO, I would use ‘nginx’ wherever it is used, with no capital whatsoever.

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)

It probably also has to do with the transcription of the cyrillic
letters to latin letters.

Also, there seem to be different ways of „capitalization“ in American
English and Russian, if you look around the web a bit.
(My own knowledge of Russian is best described as „extremely limited,
bordering the nonexistent“).

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…)

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:


http://nginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Infographic_History-of-Nginx_FulI_20141101.png