On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
> Obviously the database I'm thinking about is something that's a lot
> better that Exchange or Groupwise. I'm thinking MySQL but there's Oracle
> and other databases that might do the trick. Obviously this isn't going
> to happen unless the SQL backend is rock solid.
>
While I'm sure Oracle is better today then it was ~10 years ago,
back in '96 I worked for SoftSwitch[1], who produced and sold an
email switch appliance, whose datastore was based on Oracle.
It was more hassle than it was worth. When I left, I was under
the impression that the product was moving to a flatfile solution,
and a couple of years later it didn't matter; as smtp became
pervasive the market for their product pretty much went away.
[1] Which was then bought by Lotus, which was then bought by
IBM.
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