Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> 
>> From what I heard from one of the devs some time back, was that WinFS was
>> dropped because the feature set they were given was too ambitious. 
>> Instead
>> of starting small and building on that, the project was scoped to do
>> everything at once. It was taking too long and producing too little 
>> and got
>> scrapped.
>>
>> It was more a failure of management than of technology.
>>
>> Wasn't a complete loss. Several of the senior devs got folded into the 
>> SQL
>> Server dev team and contributed to enhancements of the SQL storage 
>> engine,
>> including the FileStream feature.
> 
> ...says our resident MVP. ;-)
> 
By the way, congrats on that :)

...Chambers

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