Couldn't you have a Pot, Good Soil and Beautiful Flowers instead of a petri dish!!! ;-)
On Friday 27 May 2005 02:46 pm, Mark Street wrote: > After reflecting on the Linux/distribution rhetoric some..... a simple > metaphor is in order for the model we are assembling here with VistA. > > I have opened the box, emptied all the contents on the table, quickly > scanned the directions, assembled the parts and pieces together into a > somewhat workable system. It is time for my metaphor. > > 1. The computer operating system - VAX, UNIX, Linux, Windoze, etc. = A > petri dish > > 2. The database - Cache, GT.M = the blood ager medium for the organisms to > grow. > > 3. VistA, objects, routines, applications - mumps code = the organisms > that grow and flourish on and in the medium. > > As we can see, the OS is merely a container for the medium and the > organisms. Which is why it really doesn't matter which distribution of > Linux one uses. > > If you have a consultant or contract with anyone who is experienced or > proficient with UNIX/Linux it is not that difficult to get a petri dish out > of the packaging. The OS is just a petri dish. ; ) Feel free to clarify > or add to this metaphor > > Now, back to the mumps textbook. This stuff is strange..... no wonder you > guys have been working with it for 20 years. : | -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
