On Jan 30, 2006 03:25 PM, Stefan Huber <shuber at prion.de> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 


Hi.

Comfire was a product name, OX engine is a synonym for the "OX engine"
(whatever this means and where ever this synonym is used ;-) and NAS is
the historical name for the application server we have written years ago.

I would use the term Open-Xchange Server and this means everything -
including such projects names like NAS, Comfire from the past and new
ones like the "OX engine" ...

Regards,

Martin Kauss