Support Forums: Message List - Microsoft kills WinFS project http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:06:45 -0400 Strange! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:14:58 -0400 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:14:58 -0400 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:14:58 -0400 Jun 27, 2006 Sachin Dharmapurikar 0 Re: clarification http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 I read the register article - interesting even though a bunch of it went over my head. I'm going back to my gut feeling that a relational file system turned out to be a bad idea versus what Spotlight and Google Desktop give you.

I'm...]]> Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:40:25 -0400 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:40:25 -0400 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:40:25 -0400 Jun 27, 2006 Werner Punz 0 Re: clarification http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:49:08 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:49:08 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:49:08 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 George Coller 1 Re: Why am I? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Increasingly I'm begging to wonder if someone replaced my The Server Side favorite with on for Slashdot......]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:09:02 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:09:02 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:09:02 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 George Coller 0 clarification http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081
I doubt it was a problem of the idea. Since BeOS was quite successful.
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If you have a need for a relational database interface, you could look at (...) Apple's Hierarchical File System Plus (1998) -- interestingly, the file system of the iPod

Wrong, just judging from the...]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:44:35 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:44:35 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:44:35 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 James Watson 0 Re: Microsoft kills WinFS project http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 If you have a need for a relational database interface, you could look at (...) Apple's Hierarchical File System Plus (1998) -- interestingly, the file system of the iPod...]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:27:23 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:27:23 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:27:23 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 Bostjan Dolenc 1 Re: Microsoft kills WinFS project - would be interesting paper http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Take spotlight in OS X which allows system wide searching of all sorts of files based on keywords. Maybe I'm not comparing apples to apples here ...]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:56:20 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:56:20 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:56:20 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 Dennis Bekkering 0 Re: Microsoft kills WinFS project - would be interesting paper http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 I read one of the comments on the post saying that WinFS just morphed - was not dead like nay sayers would have you believe. To me that sounds apologetic. Of course it morphed if the idea is based on technology ideas from a decade...]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:46:23 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:46:23 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:46:23 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 James Watson 0 Re: The idea is fine http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 I doubt it was a problem of the idea. Since BeOS was quite successful. More likely than not, they just couldn't implement it properly and the performance probably wasn't up to requirements. If only BeOS opened their file system before going...]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:39:34 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:39:34 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:39:34 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 James Watson 0 The idea is fine http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:30:37 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:30:37 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:30:37 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 peter lin 7 Re: Microsoft kills WinFS project - would be interesting paper http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:22:00 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:22:00 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:22:00 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 George Coller 10 Re: Microsoft kills WinFS project http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41081 It will be the file system in Cairo, which will ship in 1995 So we should put off buying a new computer until then, right?]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:35:27 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:35:27 -0400 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:35:27 -0400 Jun 26, 2006 James Watson 0