Re: Call from Info World - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Call from Info World
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Msg-id 200311301649.hAUGnoa04911@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Call from Info World  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Call from Info World  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Re: Call from Info World  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > >
> > > > Well, not really 1 for 1.  Windows is more than a window manager and
> > > > file server.  I think the Oracle-PostgreSQL 1:1 linkage is closer than
> > > > Windows-KDE.
> > >
> > > Oracle is also more than an SQL database server.  What is your point?
> >
> > The _main_ product of Oracle is a database server --- the main product
> > of Windows is not a window manager.
>
> It isn't?  The main product of Microsoft isn't a window manager, but
> Windows is one of their products ... IE is a seperate product, that is
> bundled with Windows, but, then again, Konqueror is a seperate product
> bundled with KDE ...

Windows is an operating system and window manager.  For KDE, Unix is the
operating system.

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