  The linear response to a space- and time-dependent external disturbance of a
system of dilute condensed composite bosons at zero temperature, as obtained
from the linearized version of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, is
shown to result also from the strong-coupling limit of the time-dependent BCS
(or broken-symmetry RPA) approximation for the constituent fermions subject to
the same external disturbance. In this way, it is possible to connect
excited-state properties of the bosonic and fermionic systems by placing the
Gross-Pitaevskii equation in perspective with the corresponding fermionic
approximations
