[Info-vax] Looking for other IDEAS for Small/Medium OVMS appliance server????

[Forster, Michael]

Can't y'all just get along?

InterSystems owns ISM, DSM, DTM, Cache. Cache integrated great features from ISM and DSM according to folklore.

Independent MUMPS vendors or open source are GT/M, Magic.

Michael
Team Storage
Team MUMPS


On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:05 PM, "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2011-02-02 00:35:
>> On 2/1/2011 5:01 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2011-02-01 22:37:
>>>> On 2/1/2011 3:48 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2011-02-01 19:30:
>>>>>> On 2/1/2011 3:33 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2011-02-01 01:47:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 1/31/2011 5:17 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2011-01-31 22:43:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> That's "CACHE" not "CASH"! They sound the same
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> No they don't!
>>>>>>>>> And it's Caché (cash-ee, like in Café, Passé and so on).
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> From "American Heritage Dictionary", Second College Edition,
>>>>>>>> Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston" C. 1976
>>>>>>>> "cache (kash)n. 1. A hole or similar hiding place used for storing
>>>>>>>> provisions and other necessities.
>>>>>>>> 2. A place used for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables.
>>>>>>>> 3. A store of goods hidden in a cache.
>>>>>>>> 4. Computer Sci. a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit
>>>>>>>> of a
>>>>>>>> computer."
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Would you care to cite your sources???
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anyone knowing how to prononce a french word, I guess.
>>>>>>> You are still missing the acute accent.
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent.
>>>>>>> But realy, I just think you try to *look* like an idiot.
>>>>>>> You *do* know all this, not ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Must I point out that we are "speaking" English and not French?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So what ??
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have 1000's of foreign words in swedish also, mostly
>>>>> english and french. I expect anyone on this list beeing
>>>>> intelligent enough to be able to pronounce a word with
>>>>> a typical french acute accent in a correct way.
>>>>> Obviosuly I was wrong.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think you are intelligent!
>>>> 
>>>> Please note that the word is an *English* word.
>>> 
>>> Cache maybe, but caché (the word used to name the actual
>>> DBMS product) is french.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, is there any particular reason not to pronounce it as it
>>> is written and as the producer/seller itself prounounces it ?
>>> 
>>> This all started with you claiming that "They sound the same".
>>> Just listen to the video I linked to earlier (that you snipped
>>> early). You are wrong. Caché and cash are pronounced different.
>>> 
>>>> Goto http://www.intersystems.com/cache/index.html
>>>> and listen to the Intersystems guy presenting it...
>>> 
>>>> English does not use
>>>> diacritical marks; e.g. no umlaut, no accent grave nor accent acute.
>>> 
>>> And if so, since Caché uses an accent, it can't be english.
>>> Didn't you say earlier that caché is an english word ?
>>> 
>> 
>> Cache *is* an English word. It is written *without* any diacritical mark!
>> 
> 
> So what ? Of course it is. That have never been argued.
> 
> It was Caché (the database product that runs on VMS) that was discussed.
> Not cache. You made a misstake, which is just fine, everyone can make
> a mistake. The first time "cache" came into this thread was when
> you tried to correct the two earlier mistakes ("cach" and "cash") but
> made a third mistake (and also claming that the database product is
> pronounced the same as "cash", which is clearly wrong, of course).
> 
> Now, if they have selected a good name or not for their product
> is a different matter... :-)
> 
> 
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