[Kroupware] OpenGroupware.org formed through SKYRiX open sourcing its Groupware server

[Helge Hess]

On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003, at 17:17 Uhr, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> I personally think the advantage KOLAB will have over these other 
> approaches
> with a database is that imap can server files FAST.  I mean thats what 
> an
> email server is built to do.

Very true.

> Databases where never ment for large blobs of
> data like email and vcal events.

VCal events, unlike email, are certainly not large blobs but fit rather 
very well into a database table ?!

The major advantage of the Kolab design is that it avoids locking at 
the cost of losing object identity. This has functional drawbacks but 
improves scalability.

best regards,
   Helge
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