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June 2006 - Posts

• Bye WinFS. But is it relational?

  The WinFS team have announced that their product will effectively be absorbed into .NET 3.0 and into Katmai (the next version of SQL Server). WinFS is no longer slated for a separate release as a post-Vista enhancement. It looks like this means WinFS Read More... Posted 24 June 2006 21:04 by David.Portas | 1 Comments

• Bill stepping down

  Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role Read More... Posted 15 June 2006 22:05 by David.Portas | 2 Comments

• The BAARF Party

  BAARF has a sense of humour but is also a great collection of resources with a point. I mention this because I met one of this site's founders at the session wth Jim Gray. Jim liked the idea of BAARF. Read More... Posted 04 June 2006 20:15 by David.Portas | 0 Comments

• Meeting Jim Gray

  Apparently there's a small plaque located at the Pentagon in Washington. The plaque faces skywards for the benefit of foreign spy satellites and it says "If you can read this, you're 10 years behind us!". Satellite imaging was one topic Read More... Posted 04 June 2006 19:59 by David.Portas | 0 Comments