[ILUG] Longhorn

[Niall Walsh]

Bernhard Rohrer wrote:

>Longhorn is planning to give us tools for information organisation  beyond
>file system hierarchy. This is an imprtant step. Does anybody  know what
>the open source community plans in response?
>  
>
Personally I hope nothing.  The time for caring about technology news 
from Redmond is long past (things like whether or not they met last 
nights deadline to comply with the EU's directives however are another 
matter as this should directly impact FOSS compatibility with Windows 
networks).   We have our systems which are evolving and innovating just 
fine, though obviously any successful advances outside of FOSS would 
lead developers/hackers to look at how to incorporate the best of the 
advances.

A second point, WinFS (which I presume this is talking about) just makes 
me laugh every time I hear about it.  I remember back in 1995/6 reading 
about Detroit/NT4 and how it would revolutionise computing with it's 
database backed filesystem.   10 years later MS are still talking up the 
same features which are still slipping from releases (I thought WinFS 
was gone from Longhorn, or at least from the initial release).  I 
haven't managed to pull up any links from a quick googling, and the 
wayback machine doesn't go back far enough.  Anyone have any links?  I'd 
love a good laugh at reading some of that old material (and see what 
else still hasn't made it and is on the agenda).

Niall