WinFS delayed, this probably means more time for semi-structured

WinFS delayed, this probably means more time for semi-structured query languages to establish themselves instead of SQL
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SQL would be just terrible for FS semantics to standardize on, and hopefully we will be able to deploy a semi-structured querying language alternative (www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html) before they ship. I was sort of expecting that they would be late, as they don't yet have a good technical foundation in their FS storage layer for adding database functionality, and we surely know that's a lot of work to create;-).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30670.html

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