I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
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Ferris Research notes (in a surprisingly light article for them - [membership required]) that WinFS is potentially the future database for Exchange. Well …Â yeah!
The technology formerly known as WinFS goes into Microsoft’s development tools for the next few years, matures, and then most likely comes out in the next major waves of products. Having missed the Vista deployment wave, a future version of Office is significant enough to deliver on this vision; an add-on to Vista probably not. And someday, maybe, Exchange gets a new database; perhaps the technology formerly known as WinFS inside of SQL. We’ve been waiting for an object file and database system for a long time. We’ll have to wait a little longer
Microsoft have left the door open too long (is it 10 years yet?) and it looks like the door will stay open for another 5+ years.Â
Who cares what the store under the messaging system is.  Having the mission critical messaging system serving email to internal applications is a unnecessary overloading and no longer makes architectural sense. The messaging system only needs to be be a short term store.
Quest ArchiveManager links to Exchange and other email servers to provide the full benefits of a relational email store. Today.
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