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On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 17:37:25 lee wrote: |
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> Are we at the point where users are accepting to have to install and |
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> maintain a fully fledged RDBMS just for a single application which |
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> doesn't even need a database in the first place? |
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Yes, a sad state of affairs indeed. I was hoping for the last 5-6 years that |
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someone who can code would come to their senses with this application and |
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agree that not all desktop application use cases require some enterprise level |
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database back end architecture, when a few flat data files have served most |
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users perfectly fine for years. I mean, do I *really* need a database for |
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less that 60 entries in my address book?!! |
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I can stick with Kmail-1 until circumstances force a change upon me, or I can |
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try once more to migrate to it now (previous attempts failed for various |
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reasons). The only reason I am having a go at it again during my holidays, is |
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because I don't want to have to try a forced migration in the middle of some |
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other crisis during a working week. |
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> Quite a few times I've been thinking it would be nice to have a database |
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> to implement a particular feature for an application, and I've always |
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> decided not to do it because it seems to be a totally unreasonable |
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> requirement, and because it seems rather unlikely that any user would be |
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> willing to do it. It would make some sense if an RDBMS were a |
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> requirement already, used by all kinds of software --- though I'm |
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> finding it very questionable if we should go there (and find ourselves |
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> with a single point of failure and bottleneck). |
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You are wise and evidently not affected by the EU project which funded all |
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this semantic KDE desktop PoC exercise, that foisted the akonadi on us as if |
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it was the best thing a desktop would ever need ... madness! |
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Perhaps this was Europe's response to the MSWindows desktop monopoly in the |
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enterprise sector, but IMHO they started too late and ended up fighting the |
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wars of the previous decade. |
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> A MUA must be doing something very wrong to have such a requirement. |
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> And what kind of performance can you expect with a laptop that has only |
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> 4GB and is already overloaded with KDE? |
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I don't actually run the full KDE desktop. I run e17 with some KDE apps, like |
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Kmail. Kmail has been and still is the best mail client for my needs and |
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habits. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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