[LinuxUsers] Microsoft To Open up Outlook .pst Format

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting indeed.  Unfortunately, M$ will still control the standard.
>
>

Well, I don't think anyone else would actually want to use the format,
so I'm not sure it makes a difference that Microsoft controls the
standard. The only point of having it is being able to migrate away
(import/export). To share the pst file with Outlook, you are better
off instead going through a published API that will allow you to share
access to the database better.

So, seems like a good thing. It's always important to be able to get
your data out of a proprietary product. In fact I am surprised most
corporations don't consider it an absolute necessity to have a data
migration path off of any proprietary binary formats deployed widely
in the organization.

-- John.