Subject Re: SV: SV: [Firebird-Architect] Re: Design of new built-in functions
Author Martijn Tonies
> >>>If he doesn't want to put it on the primary server, I hereby grant
> >>>permission to use the quad-core Opteron (fawkes) jointly owned by MySQL
> >>>and IBPhoenix.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Hold on - I thought fawkes was ours and fluffy was yours?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >People ... you really should thing of better names for your powerboxes
:-)
> >
> >
> >
> Fluffy is the giant three headed dog from Harry Potter. I assumed,

Right, now that you mention it ;-)

> apparently incorrectly, that everyone would catch the subtle literary
> reference. Fawkes, for the uninitiated, is the name of Dumbledore's
> Phoenix, also from Harry Potter.

This one, I could remember.

Either way, the names sound ... a bit petite. ;-)

> My Swedish masters and I have moved off Fawkes, but it's still sitting
> next my desk and I still have to listen to it chatter. But by all
> means, put up a Wiki of any flavor but *please* put it up soon. It is
> much better to have a Wiki than to envision having a Wiki. Just get it
> up before someone from Project Prevention finds out and forms a
> committee to study the situation. Or the Firebird Foundation declares
> excommunication for anyone using the Firebird trademark in an
> unsanctioned Wiki...

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