Re: database market share 2003

I think my point is that you should consider what you mean by a performance vehicle. Is Informix a flashy sports car, or a truck with a lot of nice features and horsepower. The reason I asked about the diesel option is that I have a farm with a 500 gallon tank of Diesel fuel. Now I use this for my tractors. (Yeah, I actually now own two. ;-) But as long as I restrict that truck for farming purposes, I can run it on the Farm Diesel. (Farm fuel is not taxed. If you're caught using it in your everyday truck/car, you'll be in a world of hurt. I used the boat analogy cause I don't think many of you blokes would need to pull a trailer full of cattle to market. Or a hay trailer.... Joel Garry wrote: > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:<ca4mj4$c87$1@news.xmission.com>... > >>nobody said: >> >>>Yeah but can you tow that boat trailer? >> >>Only a complete idiot would want to tow a boat behind a Ferrari. :o) > > > Depends on the boat, depends on the Ferrari. Several of the '60's and > 70's big front-engineed beasties could easily be used for a small > boat, particularly the 400. And of course, you could tow your > Barchetta :-) (Barchetta means 'little boat' in Italian, and has been > the model designation for several small two-seater Ferraris, as well > as other brands - my friend had a '49 similar to this > http://www.bilavefur.com/myndasafn/Ferrari/1950%20Ferrari%20275S%20-%20340MM%20fsv.jpg > with a '62 Lusso V12). > > Some Corvettes have been successfully used to tow boats, the most > well-known being a ZR1 towing a ZR1-engined boat. My first Vette (a > '63) had been used for a similar purpose by some drag-boat racer in > Washington State. There were some marine hop-ups in the engine (cam > and pistons). It was scary fast when not being used to tow. Having a > tow hitch _was_ very useful when moving twice a year in college. > > >>>And does it run on diesel? >> >>Go wash your mouth out with soap, young man. ... Er, old man. > > > I hate diesel, mostly because the high-sulphur crud sold in the US > combined with generally poor maintenance and some smog exemptions make > it a daily punch-in-the-nose for me. But I recognize that they tend > to be very high torque engines, and in fact there are several being > developed for serious racing programs, and several manufacturers are > showing hipo prototypes. http://eng.ovsem.com/user/daimlr/2.shtml > search for C-111-11 - during the '70s! > > So watch those similes. > > jg > -- > @home.com is bogus. > http://wasarrested.com/uses.asp