Two Gaussian measures are
either mutually singular or equivalent. This dichotomy was first discovered by
Feldman and Hajek (independently). We give a simple, almost formal, proof of this
result, based on the study of a certain pair of functionals of the two measures. In
addition we show that two Gaussian measures with zero means and smooth
Polya-type covariances (on an interval) are equivalent if and only if the right-hand
slopes of the covariances at zero are equal.