eWeek: Exchange 12 has competitors, execs insist

Reaction among some competitors to Exchange12 beta 1 announcement...TimBray, a Sun Web technologistand the co-inventor of XML, told eWEEK that while some of Microsoft's softwarewas excellent, "I cannot say that Exchange falls into that category,"whether from a technical engineering or feature-set perspective.whoa.;) Several comments about Microsoft's long-forgotten plan to port Exchangeto SQL, circa 2003, with a new spin:"A lot of theoriginal advantages that we were going to get from going to a SQL-typestore we already have in Exchange now. While this was very attractive fiveyears ago, the bar has been set higher today, as we will have 64-bit inExchange 12, we will have better failover and disaster recovery and wehave a Web services API," he said. Huh?  I'msure I can find a few quotes about the benefits Exchange expected froma SQL base.  Also, why did SharePoint move away from the Exchangestore architecture so quickly?  Julie Farris of Scalix offers herperspective:The Exchange message store, based on theJet database, is prone to corruptions and is difficult to manage and maintain,she said, adding, "This is a long-standing, known problem, and plansto replace the Exchange message store have been iteratively postponed."At the same time, Exchange upgrades have come to mean a perpetual rearchitectureof customers' e-mail environments, she said.Link: eWeek:Exchange 12 has competitors, execs insist> (via PeterO'Kelly)