PC Sector Round Table Message Board

To: LK2 who wrote (1222)	11/13/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	of 2025

Tape this on your cube and pray to it 3 times a day: ------------------------------------ "Microsoft's most important business is the file system, so we need to build a database file system that preserves the interfaces of Microsoft's file system and ease of use but yields all the benefits of a database, like searching and sharing documents," Ellison argues. ------------------------------------ Is there still anyone wondering why Microsoft goes through all the pains to protect integration of Internet Explorer into Windows? The answer is above. File system is DEAD. Of course, it's gonna be there like HDD tracks and sectors are there. But you won't see it. It will be hidden by IE2000 or Oracle2001. And it's about time. Believe it or not, we discussed this in research context a year or two ago, though there's some research done on these ideas for the last two decades. Not many investment opportunities though - it's the MSFT, Unix (Linux? Solaris?) and Oracle slugfest. Jurgis