David W. Fenton / 2005/10/20 / 03:23 PM wrote: >Isn't it quite clear?
I know, I know. I was the only one didn't get it. I didn't think that way because, altho it has been quite sometime I saw such bug last time, this kind of data loss was not new to me. Back in System 6/7 era and DOS era, a lot of complicated apps had a similar problems especially running on low memory machines, which made us incremental save a habit. >Finale is not a database program, but Finale's data is stored in a >database structure. Which is the same as any app that does file I/O, yet we don't call them database, tho. >Think of it this way: > >When you go to Amazon.com, you are not running a database -- you're >running an application in a web browser. But when you do a search, >the Amazon search application is using a database to retrieve the >data for you. Sorry, but I don't buy it. Amazon has inventory database, customer database, and many other database that are actually database objects. How do I know? I was a team for their UTF-8 data processing prior to Amazon.jp launch. Finale has no database component. In my definition, database is a real-time file I/O, meaning when it is corrupt, that is the end of it. Email client is one of them. It has its database, which has real-time r/w I/O, and when it errors, you might loose everything. Anyway, I guess I should shut up after embarrassing myself not understanding the thread :-( -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
