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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In 2004 I interviewed Quentin Clark, who led the WinFS effort, for an InfoWorld cover story on Longhorn. We had dinner recently, and Quentin made a surprising remark. He said that although WinFS never shipped, many of the underlying technologies already have. I wanted to hear more. So, on this week’s Perspectives show, Quentin expounds at [...]
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Tim Anderson's ITWriting (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Fascinating interview with Quentin Clark, who led the cancelled WinFS project at Microsoft. Jon Udell is the interviewer. Clark talks about how technology from WinFS is now emerging as the Entity Framework in ADO.NET (part of .NET 3.5 SP1) and the FileStream column type in SQL Server 2008 - a connection I’d already made at the [...]
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The WinFS dream continues -- read the full interview to understand how WinFS is not dead yet, at least in spirit... WinFS was an ambitious effort to embed an integrated storage engine into the Windows operating system, and use it to create a shared data ecosystem. Although WinFS never shipped as a part of Windows, many of the underlying technologies have shipped, or will ship, in SQL Server and in...
