[buster]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server

Same as "FTP Server" doesn't mean proftpd, "HTTP Server" doesn't mean apache and "C compiler" doesn't mean gcc. SQL is a language. Server is a generic term.

Another example: I may ask my colleague the following: "Which SQL server should we use in our new project?". Does this mean, i would like to know the edition and version of the MS SQL Server or maybe (and from my point of view more likely) i am looking for PostgreSQL, MySQL or MSSQL. If i'd like to know which edition and version i should use, i'd ask "Which MS SQL Server should i use?". That's a difference.

Might be that our views differ but i can understand the parents points.

[Macha]

But httpd does mean Apache, and sh means Bourne shell.

It also helps that nobody says "The SQL server is down" when their mysql instance is down. Even when using a generic term it's "the database is down"

[pritambaral]

> ... and sh means Bourne shell.

1. Except on Android, stock Debian/Ubuntu/etc., and in the bootloader and initramfs of my embedded OS;

2. I'm guessing you actually meant 'Bourne Again Shell' instead of 'Bourne Shell'.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Eh... sh only refers to the generic specification of a bourne-family shell, usually bash or dash; almost nobody is actually using the original Bourne shell.

[taffer]

> It also helps that nobody says "The SQL server is down" when their mysql instance is down.

I've heard such sentences many times from many people.

[zaarn]

sh refers to a POSIX shell. The bourne shell (bsh) is not entirely compatible with the Bourne Against Shell (bash), and bash will switch to a compatibility mode if called as sh.

Additionally, many distros, including Ubuntu and Debian, do not use bash as their default shell. (Ubuntu/Debian use dash, Arch uses zsh, Alpine uses busybox sh)

[bigato]

In openbsd, httpd means their own webserver. In plan9, there is also a webserver called httpd.