Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:51:01 -0800
Message-ID: <1106675308.98304@yasure>

Hugo Kornelis wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:47:44 -0800, DA Morgan wrote:
>
>

>>Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>* http://news.com.com/2100-1001-236732.html?legacy=cnet
>>>>>This page has a more serious appearance. It lists Linux market share for
>>>>>server OS at 16% in 1998 and 25% in 1999. I'm not sure how to relate these
>>>>>numbers to the numbers I quoted from other sources in my previous message
>>>>>(projected 28% of worldwide server shipments and redeployments by 2008;
>>>>>16% of enterprises expecting over half of the company servers to run Linux
>>>>>in 2005).
>>>>
>>>>To me this seems high. There is still a lot of Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX
>>>>out there not to mention Windows: Especially on Exchange and other non-
>>>>database servers.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for proving my point. :-)
>>
>>Did not such thing. The numbers are the numbers. And they clearly
>>indicate a larger and larger percentage of the data center being
>>run on Linux. Certainly not a majority ... but the number is
>>increasing and by the end of this decade, the point I was making,
>>it should approach critical mass unless stopped by the last resort
>>of scoundrels ... a law suit by Microsoft.

>
>
> Hi DA,
>
> And that was exactly what I was saying. Next decade will be the decade of
> Linux, if it continues to grow as it grows now. This decade is still a
> Microsoft decade, as MS still has more market share than all competitors
> together.
>
> Best, Hugo

We are in complete agreement except to me the decade of accendency for Linux is to what I was referring and for you the decade when it has reached that point. Nothing here but using the same words to mean different things.

Regards,

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 11:51:01 CST