On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:25:28AM -0800, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:17:01 +0200
> > From: Jesus Cea Avion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Problem:
> [...snip...]
> >
> > Solution:
> >
> > A simple and efficient database (key/value) used to store messages.
>
> This is a solution that is commercially available and has a good many
> customers. The software integrates nicely with many current desktop
> apps. Comes complete with built in calendaring and appointment system.
> Unfortunately, it only *nicely* uses ONE mail reader... It has the
> potential to use many readers but deliberately does not integrate at ALL
> with any of the others.
>
> The name of this commercial package and the reader? Exchange and
> Outlook...
A bad implementation doesn't disprove the value of the basic idea.
(Though it does nicely prove that the idea itself is not a panacea!)
At this point, I think the scalability of database mail solutions is
unproven one way or the other. The idea has definite potential, and
might prove to be incredibly high performance, or might yet prove to be
inferior to a well-designed structure resting on the standard UNIX file
system (which is, let us not forget, a database in its own right, just
a peculiarly limited and optimized one.)
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy
