OT - this means ??? "MS Exchange runs on SQL Server"

There have been turf wars between "central" (mainframe/unix oriented) and "departmental" (NT oriented) SysAdmns here for 5+ years (administration promulgated a "decentralization" policy, and changed IT funding to support it).

Now, some of the "departmental" SysAdmns are finally getting sick of some of the overhead involved in running the own little fiefdoms.

At the same time, "central" LAN gurus are taking on AD implementation.

With reference to the above, yesterday I heard a "central" SysAdmn/LAN guru saying:

"MS Exchange runs on SQL Server"

what does that mean?

Is the SQL Server that Exchange runs on pretty much the same as the off-the-shelf version that one would install for standard development purposes, or is it "pre-tuned", specially configured, etc?

thanks,
ep

ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 025
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> From: bill thater <bthater2_at_netscape.net>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:14:51 -0500
> Subject: Re: Backup Strategy
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> BBellows_at_usg.com wrote:
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> >JoJo --
> >
> >Sure, but be aware that Unix abaci are better than NT abaci.
> >
> don't forget the VMS abaci.;-)
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>

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