User talk:Eric Evers

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Welcome

Eric, Welcome to CZ, and thanks for authoring in the Computers Workgroup. By the way, UT is also my alma mater!Pat Palmer 22:18, 31 January 2008 (CST)

MySQL

Eric - I noticed that you edited the article on MySQL to note that "MySQL" had been bought by Sun Microsystems. Could you please clarify your edit a little - I assume it was the company (MySQL AB, or something like that) which was bought (or was it the trademark? The codebase is GPL, so Sun doesn't need to "buy" that). Can you please rewrite your edit to clarify what exactly Sun bought, and if there was any sort of announcement about what Sun intends to do with its acquisition, perhaps include a brief summary of that, too? Thanks, Anthony Argyriou 13:42, 21 March 2008 (CDT)

Erlangs

I wouldn't use 'Erlang language' because we use '<foo> language' for human languages. Use Erlang programming language, then it'll be the same as all the others. And I'd use Erlang (unit) for the telecom thingy. J. Noel Chiappa 16:13, 21 March 2008 (CDT)

And please don't use cut-and-paste to move a page: that divorces the page from its edit history, which we need to keep for copyright reasons. There's a "move" tab at the top of each page; please use that. J. Noel Chiappa 16:16, 21 March 2008 (CDT)