RE: IIUG Board election results
Not a technical support thread: this is an off-topic tangent from the IIUG Board election results discussion, debating what "embedded" means when applied to Informix. One poster argues embedded means an invisible component of a larger solution (e.g. a phone switch or POS system), as opposed to an "integrated" visible component like a database in a web/app stack, citing the ability to fit Unix, IDS and data on a key fob. Another poster dismisses this flatly. No technical problem is posed and no resolution is recorded.
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> From: aford@networkip.net> To: informix-list@iiug.org> Subject: Re: IIUG Board election results> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:04:29 -0600> > > > When did 'embedded' mean something like Informix?> When its a key component of a solution. Think of when you're selling a phone switch. You have an embedded database. There is a difference between integrated and embedded. Usually when you're talking about embedded, you're talking about a component that isn't visible. Integrated you're talking about a component that *is* visible. As an example, you're selling an e-commerce solution. So you're selling a web server, app server, and database server. So the database is a visible component of your overall solution. (LAMP for example is an integrated solution.) Don't think of embedded as a bad thing. The fact that you can fit Unix OS, IDS engine and the database all on a key fob? (Oh and if you want, the app too....) That's definitely not a bad thing. A practical use case would be part of a POS system where the cashier has their own fob that they insert at the start of the shift and remove at the end of the shift when they also flip out the cash drawer. (Hmmm that could be patented.... ;-) _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > From: aford@networkip.net > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Re: IIUG Board election results > > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:04:29 -0600 > > > > > > > When did 'embedded' mean something like Informix? > > > When its a key component of a solution. Think of when you're selling a > phone switch. You have an embedded database. There is a difference > between integrated and embedded. Usually when you're talking about > embedded, you're talking about a component that isn't visible. > Integrated you're talking about a component that *is* visible. As an > example, you're selling an e-commerce solution. So you're selling a web > server, app server, and database server. So the database is a visible > component of your overall solution. (LAMP for example is an integrated > solution.) > > > Don't think of embedded as a bad thing. The fact that you can fit Unix > OS, IDS engine and the database all on a key fob? (Oh and if you want, > the app too....) That's definitely not a bad thing. > A practical use case would be part of a POS system where the cashier has > their own fob that they insert at the start of the shift and remove at > the end of the shift when they also flip out the cash drawer. > > (Hmmm that could be patented.... ;-) > What a load of utter cock. ( Sorry OTC I stole your line. :-)