Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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by Lerxst on Fri 31st Oct 2003 18:04 UTC

I think we should look at the right light: the fact it's a db-FS is not the most important thing, MS is not saying they're revolutionizing on that, the most important is the abstraction layer(s) MS is proposing on top of it, trying to make the system more intuitive for the user.