Quoting Orlando Andico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Rick Moen wrote: > .. > > engineering I'm aware of. But, hey, if you're already willing to store > > crucial business data in unstable, badly documented, binary data > > formats, it's just one additional, expensive bad decision. > > I wouldn't call Oracle "unstable."
Oracle is not a format. The formats I was referring to are the same ones you were, MS-Word, MS-Excel, etc. (PDF doesn't have that problem, but is most logically a display/printout format, not a proper document format.) Microsoft Corporation has a habit of designing document formats that are badly designed and tend to autocorrupt over time. This is true of at least the major MS-Office formats, and also of MS Exchange Server's message store. -- Cheers, "My file system's got no nodes!" Rick Moen "How does it shell?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
