nolesrule;432609 Wrote: > [snip] > MySQL has software with "server" in the name as well. > > "Server" can refer to any software application that provides the > service in a server-client relationship. Web server, ftp server, chat > server, music server...they all refer to software. They can all run > simultaneously on the same computer.
Fair enough. Enough examples have been cited to disprove what I wrote, which was in support of the points Wirrunna made in a previous post. Point taken. However: nolesrule;432609 Wrote: > Apache is an organization that makes software. Some of the products they > make include "Apache Directory Server" and "Apache HTTP Server". > This may be true formally speaking, but it isn't the way the term is used in the vernacular. Apache Software Foundation may have numerous projects now, but the original project (and sole one for a long time) was Apache HTTP Server. HTTP Server is commonly referred to, at least in all the communities I move in, as "Apache", while all the other projects are referred to by project name. For example, one of my current projects uses Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis2, but everyone refers to "Apache", "Tomcat" and "Axis2", respectively. Similarly, another example I used in my previous post was "Oracle", which formally speaking is "Oracle Database", one of many software products of Oracle Corporation, but the broad community uses "Oracle" as an abbreviation for the database software. Anyway, for better or worse the software is to be re-renamed Squeezebox Server. So be it. -- stephenkca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stephenkca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7820 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64453 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
