Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:51:01 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1106675308.98304@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41f1718b$1_2@127.0.0.1> <2ht2v0lh8th8jiualb342uuh15dj82g8ds@4ax.com> <41f1bde6$1_2@127.0.0.1> <41f3f0e7$1_1@127.0.0.1> <41f434e3$1_2@127.0.0.1> <41f52790$1_2@127.0.0.1> <1106611078.712558@yasure> <1106667910.671309@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 51 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:29596 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@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)