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by jitl 3333 days ago
> Paxos.com

I'm confused by the relationship between Paxos, the company, and Paxos, the algorithm. Do the authors of Paxos work for Paxos?

Edit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

Ah; both are named for a fictional financial systen

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By the way, the author of the original Paxos paper is Leslie Lamport, who currently works at Microsoft Research.