If MS wanted to use a database concept, then they should have used a database engine with all the various integrity checking, backup, security etc overhead that such middleware requires.
IBM succeeded in making a database machine - the AS/400 filesystem was entirely DB/2 based. Earlier the venerable Pick stuff was implemented as a database machine too.
MS however, wanted some of the advantages of a database concept without the overheads IOW they put user data at risk by their shortcuts. That's a bad implementation for which they should be castigated and it should be used as an illustration of bad technique - no more.
I still use a MUA from OS/2 - PMMail/2 (about to be released in a new version) which lets the underlying OS handle the file stuff - folders and sub-folders are created by the OS not the MUA. Messages are individual files, can be searched and managed by OS tools if you wish, and the MUA simply re-indexes when it opens.
So back to the original angst of Outlook users, any anti-virus program (rarely necessary for OS/2 of course) need isolate/quarantine/delete only a file at a time.
Yes, and I remember having to support apps there. Scars still visible.
Consequently, I stayed with OS/2. In fact, I still use OS/2 in it's new incarnation, even though I am no longer doing a lot of support.
OS/2 - declared dead each year of its life, and still going strong.
PS: If I wasn't so tired I would have dictated this reply using the original VoiceType Dictation software which was released 10 years ago.
So puh-lease spare me all the beta tester excitement over this "real kewl stuff - talkin' tuh yuh compootuh!"
Windows - still trying to be OS/2!!
John from Australia
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I agree with parent on this one.
If MS wanted to use a database concept, then they should have used a database engine with all the various integrity checking, backup, security etc overhead that such middleware requires.
IBM succeeded in making a database machine - the AS/400 filesystem was entirely DB/2 based. Earlier the venerable Pick stuff was implemented as a database machine too.
MS however, wanted some of the advantages of a database concept without the overheads IOW they put user data at risk by their shortcuts. That's a bad implementation for which they should be castigated and it should be used as an illustration of bad technique - no more.
I still use a MUA from OS/2 - PMMail/2 (about to be released in a new version) which lets the underlying OS handle the file stuff - folders and sub-folders are created by the OS not the MUA. Messages are individual files, can be searched and managed by OS tools if you wish, and the MUA simply re-indexes when it opens.
So back to the original angst of Outlook users, any anti-virus program (rarely necessary for OS/2 of course) need isolate/quarantine/delete only a file at a time.
Yes, and I remember having to support apps there. Scars still visible. Consequently, I stayed with OS/2. In fact, I still use OS/2 in it's new incarnation, even though I am no longer doing a lot of support. OS/2 - declared dead each year of its life, and still going strong. PS: If I wasn't so tired I would have dictated this reply using the original VoiceType Dictation software which was released 10 years ago. So puh-lease spare me all the beta tester excitement over this "real kewl stuff - talkin' tuh yuh compootuh!" Windows - still trying to be OS/2!! John from Australia