On Jan 30, 2006 04:38 PM, "Falcon, George " <GFalcon at geico.com> wrote:

> In my experience, NAS is an acronym for "network-attached storage". 
> 
> 


NAS is also an acronym for the Naval Air Station / Pensacola, Florida (http://www.popasmoke.com/px/patches/nas_pensacola.jpg)
and for many other funny things if you search the internet for NAS ...

Martin




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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:general-bounces at open-xchange.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Huber
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: general at open-xchange.org
> Subject: [OX General] NAS, ComFire and Co. --> Name differentiation
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> 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/kom
> m.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
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