Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
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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AdmV You are so right. I am a windows/linux admin and my boss is the AS400 admin. He supports the legacy version of our ERP software while I deal with the Y2k capable version in PC Server land. It is really impressive what IBM did - albeit at tremendous and monopolistic prices at one time.
To my point, MS owns great plains and ms wants to be more scalable. I don't know for certain, but the great plains customers will probably look forward to this change because it will be more os400-like. MS can't survive on software sales alone. They only make money on a couple of products. Everything else is a loss-leader. I suspect that longhorn is an evolution to bring them closer to offering support services. I'll even bet they's get Dell involved. Maybe that was a brainless guess..
Lastly, I was wondering if this would mean that ODBC calls to a longhorn server would possibly disappear in a MS network -- if you get what I'm asking.