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In the same way that the old communist states often had both 'democratic' and 'republic' in their over-long official names.

Hmm, LDAP. I'd hate to meet HDAP.

LDAP is "Lightweight" only when compared with X.500..

SNMP, for instance.

"The Stupid, it burnnnsss!"

S3 , SimpleDB are not all that bad.

...except when called via SOAP!

This is part of a general principle that things with feelgood adjectives in their names usually don't really merit them.