I personally think a MS developer just lost the nerve most likely will be beaten back into them . Winfs might have been lacking in speed and function when put head to head with the open source ones. Beagle and other systems have not helped either. So they have had to come up with a new spin. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/letter.mspx */ Your Data, Any Place, Any Time. /* Ok does anyone really think the linux people cannot do this one.
Options http://relfs.sourceforge.net/ unstable and lacking. http://www.hampusdb.org/ functional. Question how to fit it.
Mysql style Winfs http://www.ritmark.com/. Function for Windows and Linux. Requirement of mysql. Note we could ship ritmark with reactos no problems. Mind you I would like more databases supported just so we are not locked to one.
Peter Dolding
Reuben Perelman wrote:
Just because Microsoft is not doing it, doesn't mean that we can't.
Klemens Friedl wrote:
WinFS is (more or less) dead, it has been announced on their official
web blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx
Some useful parts go to SQL Server development branch. Reminds me of Cairo (early 90-ties), MSFT never achived that task. Only some parts were integrated as ActiveDirectory in Win2k and improved OLE in Win 9x/NT.
The Vista search seems to be very same technology as it has been shipped with WinNT 5.0+ (but deactivated by default). Just a new frontend has been added which looks more confusing than the WinXP variant.
The channel9 videos featuring WinFS looks promising, although I heard (from beta1 testers) the technology was not . _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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