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Message: Nuance, Dragon; then Snapdragon; and now FB's Dragonstone?

"As this effort continues to gestate, Facebook has also open sourced two other new server designs. One is the latest version of the Facebook web server — a machine that delivers webpages — and the other is the company’s first custom-built database server. Both are meant to reduce costs by stripping the hardware to the bare essentials, but the database goes a step further. It doesn’t use a hard drive. It runs entirely on flash memory, the superfast solid-state storage medium that gradually replacing the hard drive across the industry.

Codenamed “Dragonstone,” the Facebook database is designed for use with a new 3.2-terabyte flash memory card from Silicon Valley outfit Fusion-io. According to Frankovsky and Fusion-io CEO David Flynn, the card was designed in tandem with Facebook engineers...." from Wired Mag.

Do these names have anything in common?

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