Hi mailinglist,

i only want to know whether the differentiation of the following terms 
is right.

NAS (Netline Application Server): Is this term used for the whole 3-Tier 
architecture (WebServer, Servlet engine / OX Engine / Backend like 
PostgreSQL) like shown in the first picture here: 
http://www.open-xchange.org/oxwiki/ArchitectureOverview? Or descripes 
NAS only the OX Engine? Is it a synonym for OX Engine?
 
ComFire: I think this this name is only a historical relict (cause of 
the former comfire-product. --> article in german: 
http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2001/12/kommerzgroupware/komm.html)

OX Engine: I think this name is related to the implementation of the 
groupware components and the interfaces as seen in the picture above 
without the frontend and backend.

So, what is right?

NAS = = ComfFire = = OX Engine
or
ComFire = = OX Engine and NAS is different
or
NAS = = ComFire and OX Engine is different      (I think this one 
because ComFire is historical name of NAS and OX Engine describes the 
stuff without frontend and backend)
or
everything is different.

Greetings,

Stefan Huber