Executive Update

WinFS (Deceased)

Posted August 14, 2006 | Technology |

In this business, if you put enough opinions on record, sooner or later you will wind up with egg all over your face. Just this past June, it was my turn: no sooner had my Executive Update "WinFS: Integrated Storage for Windows" (Vol. 9, No. 11) seen the light of day, than WinFS was no more. It had ceased to be. It was an ex-project. And just when everything had seemed to be going so well ...

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. He is an independent consultant and analyst specializing in middleware, object technology, and software engineering. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Welsh was a hardware technician, software support specialist, corporate software developer, and senior technology consultant, before taking on the task of marketing Digital's OO software… Read More
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