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Re: Movie "TITANIC" - Which database used to make it?

From: Jan Vissers <jan.t.g.vissers_at_pi.net>
Date: 1998/02/11
Message-ID: <34E22774.CD2E13B1@pi.net>#1/1

Get serious or get out.... !

al dev wrote:

> Movie "TITANIC" which won 14 OSCAR awards, GLOBE award and the best
> movie
> of the year (which already made $300 million US dollars in box office)
>
> is
> made with Linux and PostgreSQL!!
> The entire animation and computer graphics was done
> on Linux Digital Alpha box and PostgreSQL was used to store the data!!
>
> When you see the movie "TITANIC" you are actually seeing the "LIVE
> DEMO"
> of Linux and PostgreSQL!! Also Linux won the "Network Operating system
>
> of the
> year 1997" as per InfoWorld January 97 issue. The message is - for all
>
> your database needs use PostgreSQL.
> For more details check this doc below --->
>
> Database Howto Version 4.0 document is located at -
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
> Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites -
>
> http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
> Other mirror sites near you (network-address-wise) can be found at
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.html
> select a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
> This document is published in 10 different formats namely - DVI,
> Postscript, Latex, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format),
> Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML.
>
> You can get this HOWTO document as a single file tar ball in
> HTML, DVI, Postscript or SGML formats from -
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/
> Plain text format is in: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
>
> CAUTION: The document is large, total number of pages printed will
> be 212 pages (postscript version).
>
> Translations to other languages like French, German, Spanish,
> Chinese, Japanese are in
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Any help from you to
> translate to other languages is welcome.
>
> The document is written using a tool called "SGML tool" which can
> be got from - http://www.xs4all.nl/~cg/sgmltools/
> Compiling the source you will get the following commands like
>
> sgml2html databasehowto.sgml (to generate html file)
> sgml2rtf databasehowto.sgml (to generate RTF file)
> sgml2latex databasehowto.sgml (to generate latex file) etc..
Received on Wed Feb 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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