On Jul 20,  2:41am, Rick Kelly wrote:
} Perry E. Metzger said:
} 
} >And when they do, suddenly huge numbers of owners of storage
} >appliances used on NT networks will walk to their offices, torches in
} >hand.
} 
} Their grand plan for Windows XP next year is to tie the filesystem to a
} mini version of SQL server. Supposedly, this will make it easier to keep
} track of documents. The effect will be that UNIX systems running samba
} protocol servers won't be able to access the files on XP server. They will
} do anything to keep their proprietary OS as closed as possible.

     The client and server OSes have been split.  There is no such
thing as "XP server".  XP is a client only OS.  The current server OS
is 2000 Server.  The next server OS (due out in the next few months) is
.NET Server.  I highly doubt that XP will get the fancy new filesystem:
but, I can see it being in .NET.

} And meanwhile the failure of wehavethewayout.com on Windows 2K is splashed
} across all the online tech mags. :-)

    Yep, not to mention the fact that it was originally running on a
FreeBSD box with Apache.

}-- End of excerpt from Rick Kelly