From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261923AbTJ2Wmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:42:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261928AbTJ2Wmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:42:33 -0500 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:15585 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261923AbTJ2Wma (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:42:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:42:30 -0700 From: Erik Andersen To: Hans Reiser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Message-ID: <20031029224230.GA32463@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 11:50:46AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > They are building in support for transactions into the OS. > > Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is > in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.) > > Support for browsing versions in the FS. > s/seems to be doing right/might eventually get right after it is released in 2006 and after you apply sp1 + sp2 + sp3 which will probably be released around Q3 2007/ :-) > Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so SQL > sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux. Linux today vs an MS vaporware press release is not exactly a fair comparison. Based on their release schedule, it looks like we have a couple of years yet before anything materializes from the folk in Redmond. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--