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Old 05-24-2006   #4 (permalink)
Chris Altmann


 
 

Re: Will winfs be used instead of database (in some certain scenarios)?

"Kent Wo" <jian_kentwo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> (From business application point of view -)
> Will it be practical to use WinFS as object persistence layer on the
> server side?


Perhaps, but there is word of a "Entity Framework" coming in ADO.Net 3.0
that would more likely be targeted at that.

> Or it's just positioned to be the local cache on client side?


It does seem that is the main focus of WinFS at this point.

PS: I dream of a day when WinFS replaces Sharepoint, Exchange, SQL Server,
and file shares, both server side and client side.


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