Re: [exim] The Future of Email is SQL

Dave Lugo wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes - if it were 10 years ago I might not be making this suggestion. But
with the technology today and assuming that it's just going to get
better I can see the future as mail in a database.