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WinFS - No more

Quentin Clark of the WinFS Team posts of the projects demise.

Well he actually said was they broke up the project across different products, and some day they'll go into Windows, etc.

In the comments, they mention an interesting question which is just what I was thinking

"When did WinFS stop being about a relational file system?"

For 10 years we have all waited for the Relational file system, the speed, the flexibility, the ability to develop wonders against it. To code something like

SearchDocument<Songs> songList = WinFS.Select("*", "MP3"); or something ridiculous like that the possible overloads :-)

We can stlil do that with the SQLServer incarnation, but it's not the same.

What I did enjoy reading was the integration of the Item System into ADO.NET and such, makes me wonder if I need to write the Content API, or just wait for that, and have the Content API use that and extend it for ContentManagement suitable by portal systems like rainbow and such.

Published sabato 24 giugno 2006 20.43 by Jonathan

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# re: WinFS - No more

domenica 25 giugno 2006 17.02 by ace
if ms can drop winfs i see no reason why you could not drop content api if you don't have time to work on it. but to wait for something to happen. i don't think that's business logic of value.

# re: WinFS - No more

domenica 25 giugno 2006 19.02 by Jonathan
:-) I wasn't really going to wait... i like ContentAPI, so it is whatever I work on when I have time.
Im interested to see how the Content API will be able to use the ADO.NET Item Concept.
In theory, if they took the WinFS Item, and moved it to ADO.NET, then the Item, when it is  realeased, will probably be a natural evolution for our version of the Item.
I am not sure what there concept of an ItemTYpe is yet. Originally, in WinFS, the type system had some shared ideas with ours, in that it was extendible schemas, that would work in the DB as well as objects, something Filip was helping push in our DB design.

# re: WinFS - No more

martedì 27 giugno 2006 11.54 by ace
have in mind that this project is interconnected between those who work on its parts. one is waiting for someone else's timeline to be able to push its own. beter to drop it then lose it.
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