First off, the "let's make your filesystem a database with an interface" and P2P scares me considering they are talking JET engine derivatives. MS is not known for it's security. Earlier this month there was an article about suggestions for tightening their security, and they obviously ignored it while placating to the masses that they are going to do everything to make security their highest priority( those marketing guys are hard at work aren't they).
Here's an idea MS. Why don't you try building a REAL OS before adding a bunch of features.
Then I hope Oracle et al go after them for attempts at tying again. This time a RDBMS with an OS, instead of the browser. Not that they have a chance against Oracle, just that I'd like to see them burn after being forced you use their various products. It really sucks when you've seen the alternatives.
Before I started going back to school I worked in a UNIX environment, and although crashes did occur and were considered big events they were rare with years plus of up time. However, with MS products I ran into constantly (yes constantly) crashes, locks up, or spontaneously combusts.
Now they want to try something as potentially dangerous with my data like ty it to the filesystem as a database. No doubt they will leave transactions and rollbacks out of it, so not only do you lose the current data from one of their features( crashes are a feature aren't they?) but suddenly it corrupts even more stuff because it was joined, etc.
Now add someone somewhere else with malicious intent, with MS current(talk doesn't count) stance on security, not only wiping out relations, probing for intimate details(you're not keeping your finances on that machine are you?)
Maybe, I'm just a little skeptical or pananiod or both. That whole thing bothers me to no end.
Maybe a refresher on the events would enlighten a few people. I remember a time, that in order for the non-unix environment to see the Internet, you had to purchase a browser. At that time, Netscape was the biggie. If I remember correctly, you could download, stripped down versions of it off the web. They were rolling along just fine, and providing the browser to SEVERAL platforms.
M$ saw this as a threat to their windoze monopoly and dumped millions into browser development and then dumped an unheard of at that time for the mass market, free browser. Netscape at the time, tried to keep up but as a new and much smaller company with not near the personnel and financial resources, and the reason why their browser started sucking canal water.
Only thing that saved them was their enterprize solutions and hence the reason AOL bought them.
I'm glad they are suing, although all of this is really a day late and a dollar short.
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Here's an idea MS. Why don't you try building a REAL OS before adding a bunch of features. Then I hope Oracle et al go after them for attempts at tying again. This time a RDBMS with an OS, instead of the browser. Not that they have a chance against Oracle, just that I'd like to see them burn after being forced you use their various products. It really sucks when you've seen the alternatives.
Before I started going back to school I worked in a UNIX environment, and although crashes did occur and were considered big events they were rare with years plus of up time. However, with MS products I ran into constantly (yes constantly) crashes, locks up, or spontaneously combusts. Now they want to try something as potentially dangerous with my data like ty it to the filesystem as a database. No doubt they will leave transactions and rollbacks out of it, so not only do you lose the current data from one of their features( crashes are a feature aren't they?) but suddenly it corrupts even more stuff because it was joined, etc.
Now add someone somewhere else with malicious intent, with MS current(talk doesn't count) stance on security, not only wiping out relations, probing for intimate details(you're not keeping your finances on that machine are you?)
Maybe, I'm just a little skeptical or pananiod or both. That whole thing bothers me to no end.
M$ saw this as a threat to their windoze monopoly and dumped millions into browser development and then dumped an unheard of at that time for the mass market, free browser. Netscape at the time, tried to keep up but as a new and much smaller company with not near the personnel and financial resources, and the reason why their browser started sucking canal water.
Only thing that saved them was their enterprize solutions and hence the reason AOL bought them.
I'm glad they are suing, although all of this is really a day late and a dollar short.