>At the moment I have 2.5k messages in my inbox with >Thunderbird (my fault, it's not a tidy management of email >if you have so many in inbox, but that's another matter) and >other mailboxes with more than 10k emails (e.g. the Wicket >one). It works, and it doesn't sound slow, what's the >problem? :-) There are other implementation details of >Thunderbird that I don't like.
Why on earth would I want to sort my inbox?! I have search, which is powerful and fast. There is no need for tidy email management. This of course is one of Gmail's great strength. I don't want to be rude but I think you should try something before writing it off, probably true for facebook as well. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > Da : Kfir Shay <[email protected]> > A : [email protected] > Oggetto : Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > > Eclipse? > Data : Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:57 -0500 > >> I heard about this obscure app called Gmail that uses >> HTTP/HTML/JavaScript, word on the street is that it works >> pretty well for a set of hacks ;) > > Well, yes it's a set of hacks. :-) In the end, unfortunately > I have to say that the fact that a thing works doesn't imply > it is well designed: this statement is drawn from my > experience, having seen tons of industrial systems in banks, > trade exchanges, telcos, real time telemetry systems, > industrial control processes and whatever, all of them > "working" and most of them with a lot of hacks in some part > of the system. > > I don't use GMail, because I think it's crazy to put all my > email in Google's hands (but this is another point). I don't > think that its success is due to the particular technology, > rather to Google big power in pushing its solutions because > they are fashionable (not by chance I say that Google is XXI > century Microsoft - of course, their technology is anyway > much superior to Microsoft's). > > I also see that in order to having it work properly, they > had to introduce Gears, which - yes - is another hack to the > concept of webapp. I think that if Adobe were interested in > the same core business, they could have done it with Flex. > >> And if your backend is scalable and done right than you >> get the best of both worlds > > Yes, and here Google has got the supremacy of course, but I > think it's not relevant to the rest of the discussion. You > can plug any kind of client technology on a scalable back > end. > >> >> Fabrizio did you try to use a desktop mail client with 6k >> (~2.5GB) messages in your inbox... why won't you do that >> on your desktop and tell its better than Gmail > > At the moment I have 2.5k messages in my inbox with > Thunderbird (my fault, it's not a tidy management of email > if you have so many in inbox, but that's another matter) and > other mailboxes with more than 10k emails (e.g. the Wicket > one). It works, and it doesn't sound slow, what's the > problem? :-) There are other implementation details of > Thunderbird that I don't like. > > -- > f.g. > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - > www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
