LOL

As if:

select * from software where type like 'mocosoft'

result:
MICROSOFT


Dennis


Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

>marius popa wrote:
>
>
>>don't how to translate it
>>here it is :
>>
>>http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/article-firebird-info-2004.html
>>
>>
>
>The Argentinian site is saying:
>The Brasilian Magazine INFO's readers chose the winner of innovation with
>the prize INFO 2004. (The link is
>http://info.abril.com.br/premioinfo/2004/
>but really Oracle v/s Firebird is mentioned here
>http://info.abril.com.br/premioinfo/2004/
>under "banco de dados"). How does it come that you don't understand
>Portuguese, Marius?
>:-)
>
>I think Carlos Cantu or Artur Anjos are going to punish me for the bad
>translation from Portuguese (cuz I'm converting from two languages that
>aren't native to my rusty chips), but anyway:
>
>banco de dados -> database
>In a market estimated by IDC in 13.5 billion dollars and disputed byte per
>byte, Oracle 10g shines due to an innovative proposal: to take advantage of
>typical machines (they meant they aren't expensive servers) in companies,
>making up clusters to process information. Oracle 10g received 78% of the
>preferences. The preferred products at the right are:
>- Oracle 10g from Oracle (of course).
>- Firebird from FirebirdSQL Foundation.
>(I really don't care if the owner is perceived as FF or FB Project, but
>clearly it's better than other sites I've seen that attribute FB to IBP.)
>
>Going back to the original site in Spanish, it continues:
>
>It's interesting to note that in the SW Category, regarding DBs, FB got the
>second place, only behind Oracle. (Personal note: I think Larry is going to
>pay attention some day.) Also it showed without doubt that's capable for the
>task/job. This also confirms Brazil as one of the main Firebird users in the
>world after Russia. (The site uses the "free database" term instead of FB to
>emphasize the nature of our product.)
>
>Firebird also has Fyracle (http://www.fyracle.org/), a patch doing each time
>a better job to offer a compatibility mode with Oracle syntax.
>
>End of Argentinian article.
>
>This article is really funny:
>http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/article-mocosoft-vence-microsoft.html
>For most people that don't understand Spanish in this list, "moco" is vulgar
>term for the matter that goes out of the nose. A Spaniard registered
>Mocosoft.com and Mocosoftx.com, MS demanded the names to be transferred to
>them claiming violating of intellectual property laws to the OMPI
>(http://ompi.org, http://www.wipo.int/) and that organization dismissed MS
>claims:
>http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2004/d2004-0735.html
>They say that "moco" and "micro" have very different meaning and that "soft"
>is a too overused suffix for several companies and thus the distinction
>should be based on the aforementioned moco v/s micro.
>
>LOL. Maybe is MS going to appeal to ICANN?
>
>C.
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