"SQL Everywhere" is a Sybase trademark

It's all well and good that Microsoft has finally entered the well-established mobile database market (the market that iAnywhere Solution's SQL Anywhere product current *owns* by a wide margin). However, it should be noted that "SQL Everywhere" is a Sybase trademark. For confirmation of this fact, see http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.mro12.6.mro126ig/html/mro126ig/legal.htm

For confirmation of the fact that SQL Anywhere owns the mobile database market, note that it is the database of choice for the 500,000 mobile devices that will be used in the 2010 US Census; see http://www.internetadsales.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7347

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The full name of the new mobile db is SQL Server Everywhere Edition, and I don't see that in the list you're linking.

Plus, wouldn't you think that a company like Microsoft has done some research before they decide on their product names?

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"Plus, wouldn't you think that a company like Microsoft has done some research before they decide on their product names?"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002397450_microvista23.html

By naming the next version of Windows "Vista," Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond.

So, no, or: When an 800-lb gorilla has got to go, he doesn't ask where's the restroom, he just goes!

Whois vista.com?

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'She said the company filed for trademark protection of the words "Windows" and "Vista" used together. ..."The name Vista is commonly used by a variety of companies in a variety of industries," she said. "We are only using the word Vista paired with our trademark Windows so the two together - 'Windows Vista' - ...

If that's MS's stance, then it should have no problem with "Linux Windows". After all,
Windows is used by a variety of ... (yada-yada-yada).