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 --
I don't disagree with anything you've said, though I think you might've misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean to imply that OS/400 is a system built around a database filesystem - more that it's one of the features of the platform that's often overlooked, and that it's not a new idea.
Once you start digging, there's hundreds, if not thousands, of superb AS/400 features which have barely been touched upon by other systems - I talked about the database-style filesystem because it's "hot topic" at the moment, rather than anything else.
That said, I'd contend that the terms "minicomputer" (obviously as opposed to "mainframe" or "microcomputer") and "midrange server" can be used interchangably, but that's largely academic.