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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary	additional
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:01:04 -0700
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Lamont R. Peterson wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:14, David Masover wrote:
>[SNIP]
>  
>
>>I haven't run any benchmarks against "real" databases like mysql, but if
>>we want to talk about what V4 obsoletes, it obsoletes things which
>>haven't even been developed/released yet (WinFS on Longhorn).
>>    
>>
>
>Microsoft has publicly postponed WinFS to the next version of Windows
>past Longhorn, which is not scheduled for release until 2010.
>  
>
Um, no, they haven't postponed WinFS, and V4 is just a storage layer --- 
no substantial new semantics.  So actually we are behind (except that 
our storage layer is way better than theirs) and have as yet no funding 
to catch up.  Probably after they ship someone will decide Linux needs 
funding in this area.....