OH, now I see the original post.
Amazon.com just bought into Drugstore.com -- maybe they haven't had time to "educate"
them yet? so not exactly a baby-brother (I don't think they had the same father).
Also -- you SQL guys might be able to explain this -- the Oracle guy at LinuxWorld
said that NT/SQL database cannot be "backed up" unless it's "taken down" -- ie, not
available to serve the web. I know this is the case for Oracle 7 also, but not Oracle
8. What's going on that requires exclusive access to the DB? He implied that B&N has
never backed up their DB!
Also - stream of consciousness here.. Oracle announced Oracle 8i, a DB that sounds
like a competitior to Seros .. you can put "documents" and "videos" and "graphics" etc
in the DB in their native format -- and then use the DB to populate web page with
content. Showed a demo they built for Porche. It was pretty cool (visually at least).
Kathy
> Kathy E. Gill
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> From reading I gleaned that drugstore.com is like a baby brother to
> amazon.com.
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> It seems that amazon.com would help their little brother avoid a lot
> of mistakes amazon.com made while "growing up."
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