Yes, I’m still fired up about it

May 27 2004

I have more MS TechEd stuff (RTC server mainly) to blog, but I'm still fired up about yesterday.
From MEC, October, 2001, Paul Flessner:

A year ago we had a very large team in Exchange working on storage. We were never going to get that storage to the rate of innovation that we were investing in the SQL Server product. So we took the Exchange store team and we merged them with the SQL Server team and that team has been working for over one year on what we call the next generation store.
And in the 2003 kind of beyond timeframe is when we'll start to roll out that product with Exchange built on top of this new store. We think it's an incredibly powerful vision and we think it will give you an unprecedented new platform for development, new development tools, industrial strength database kind of administration and support tools that your DBA and other people in your shops are used to.
From MS TechEd, May, 2004, Dave Thompson:
We will change the data store technology at some point in the future. We have not announced any plans around that. If we did that, you would expect it to be a SQL-based technology of some sort.

Ed Brill San Diego, CA USA Category:  MS TechEd 2004  Add/View Comments [6]

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  1. 1  Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com | 5/27/2004 10:25:00 AM

  1. 2  Simon  | 5/27/2004 10:27:00 AM

    Are you allowed to heckle from the audience?

    I ask because I presume you've been clearly been entertained by some comedians there.

  1. 3  Heini  | 5/27/2004 11:37:00 AM

    "And in 2003, we'll be delivering a revamped version of Notes, which in fact builds on top of WebSphere and uses some of the native XML services of DB2[...]"

    "After this year's R6 deliverable, the next version will be a WebSphere-based version."

    Steve Mills, March 2002

  1. 4  Garth Thomas  | 5/27/2004 6:47:08 PM

    Go Ed!!

    The kiddy gloves are off. :o)

    In reality though, you have a rather lame target on your hands. The Microsoft 'vision' for the future of most of their products seems to be lifted from their competitors ideas and fed through the immense, and well oiled MS Marketing machine. It is therefore easy to show that a lot of what they say should be taken with a grain of salt, and is not worth getting to wound up about.

    Oh, what am I saying. go Ed! GO Ed! GO ED!!!

  1. 5  mac guidera http://www.macguidera.net | 5/28/2004 1:05:35 PM

    Have a look at a MS Bulletin I found from 4 years ago. It could have easily been written yesterday or next week. This merry-go-round is going to spin forever.

    http://www.s3consulting.com/macguidera/blogSphere102m.nsf/plinks/EMGA-5ZDGW4

  1. 6  Bill Geimer  | 5/28/2004 2:53:03 PM

    With MS, it used to be (and may still be if you follow the translucent window saga) if Apple ever stops innovating, where will Microsoft get ideas for Windows? Now, if ever Lotus stops bringing out new technology, will Microsoft ever have a new product? So who is going to be the next contributor to Microsoft technology? Red Hat? BEA? ...