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 Rayiner Hashem on Fri 31st Oct 2003 18:58 UTC

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter all that much how it's implemented - so long as it works
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That's the same thinking that got you Win 9x, GDI in the kernel, IE deeply integrated with the OS, etc.

and as long as the interface presented to developers is sane and useful.
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Being insane and useless never seemed to stop anyone from using Win32 and MFC. Windows developers seem to have very low standards for their APIs...