Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Stephen Satchell]

At 10:57 PM 10/29/2003 -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> MySQL wouldn't need to be shoved into the kernel; a small, fast database 
> engine (one of my professional specialities, BTW) could provide metadata 
> services in a file system module. SQL is a bloated pig; an effective file 
> system needs to be both useful and efficient, leading me to think that we 
> should consider a more succinct query mechanism for any metadata-based 
> file system.

I might add that Microsoft didn't invent the 
database-in-the-operating-system concept -- IBM has had that concept for 
years with the AS-400 line.  Indeed, the announcement by Microsoft sounds 
like MS is really courting the business marketplace; perhaps it is willing 
to give up some markets to go after what it may view as its core 
customers.  How many science/engineer types willingly use Windows as other 
than a window (pardon the pun) to a Unix-type system and as an 
office-productivity tool?

One way Microsoft could "beat Linux" is to bolster its integration with 
business mainframes, providing data layering tools designed for business 
applications "out of the box" -- a task that Linux itself (the operating 
system) could never, and should never, do.  If some company or group wants 
to put in the skull sweat and build a distribution that would do the deed, 
with kernel mods and userland support, more power to them.


--
"People who seem to have had a new idea have often just stopped having an 
old idea." -- Dr. Edwin H. Land  

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