On 21 Oct 2005 at 7:37, Phil Daley wrote: > At 10/20/2005 04:11 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > > >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. > > There's absolutely no difference (except layout) between a Finale file > and an email file.
Well, not from the standpoint of the OS, no. But the internal structures are completely different. Can you elaborate on what you mean here? I don't even quite understand Hiro's calling an email program's files a database, except at a metaphorical level. There's nothing at all metaphorical about the database natrue of Finale files. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
