Re: [U2] UV on Linux question...

2011-02-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/02/11 05:09, DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com) wrote: Even though Fedora is sort-of (but not) the 'community' version of Red Hat, there are major differences between the two; which are not clearly documented when it comes to commercial applications - installing and running. If you have to

Re: [U2] Friendfeed and U2 EDA similarities

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Romanow
IIRC, the company that asked for it was losing sales to competitors for their app based purely on name-brand and needed to store data on DB2 for a customer. DB abstraction is a good thing. Would be cool if we had a real ORM, but as we have seen, instead of using industry practices, we have yet

Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Romanow
Or the Gnu version, Gawk King. Had to go there. On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kevin King precisonl...@gmail.com wrote: Ah how I miss the caveman days when you could name your kids awk, grep, and sed and people wouldn't stare... ___ U2-Users

Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Romanow
I am not in marketing by any means, but isnt the chore for branding to make something that sticks whether it is a word or not? Sony is not a real word, but a great company name. The source for Ubuntu's name is pretty well known and documented on their site. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:57 AM,

Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Romanow
We have a silly marketing ploy in my town that tweaks me every time I drive by. A local security company has their sign on the pole upside down. Been that way for 3 years now. I have no idea why they have not made them flip it over, but it certainly draws the eye. G. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 ..?

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Romanow
All I can say is ... Ewww. Packaging stinks everywhere, but that does look tremendously frustrating. On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk wrote: Almost all my frustrations are with Microsoft. Over half the development I did last year was simply handling

Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-20 Thread FFT2001
Short, hard to misspell, unique, and not likely to be confused with something gross or stupid. In a message dated 2/20/2011 7:00:38 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, slestak...@gmail.com writes: I am not in marketing by any means, but isnt the chore for branding to make something that sticks

Re: [U2] Friendfeed and U2 EDA similarities

2011-02-20 Thread David Jordan
The main benefit for EDA is to be able to tell clients that your application runs on Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc. At the end of the day the customer may just run U2, but it enables a VAR to meet a criteria. Tender documents might require that products have to run on Oracle that would have