Re: SQL Server Yukon

> > and it's gonna get worse. just wait for M$ to bundle the db with the
> > OS...
> >
> >
> Not going to happen.
>
> Microsoft is not going to give away 90+% of the revenues from SQL
> Server just to gain a slightly
> larger share of the RDBMS market on a single platform.

Actually, it is supposed to happen. It has been widely publicized that M$ will be replacing NTFS with a database running the SQL Server engine (should be appearing in Longhorn). Instead of a file system that uses directories, etc., one will just put their files into a database. It should be obvious to this group the advantages of this approach.

Now from what I've been reading, this version of SQL Server that will be used for storing all of your files will be different than what you'd run an application against. But I wouldn't bet the farm that M$ does not start to use this widespread deployment of a database engine to their OS as an in-roads into other arenas.

Cheers,
Brian

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