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ObjectSpaces and WinFS and vendor lockin

ObjectSpaces and WinFS Part 2 – Apples and Apples

Hank Fay hits upon a key piece of information that no one is mentioning in all the press/blog entries surround the rolling of Object Spaces into WinFS.

Question: will this merger create unbreakable tie-in between ObjectSpaces and WinFS, such that other relational datastores (think Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, DB2, Firebird, etc.) are no longer in the picure? Or am I missing something here?

Nope Hank, I’d say you are right on target. Unless MS plans to make the ObjectSpaces provider pluggable (e.g. a FileSystem provider, a Sql Provider, a Exchange Mailbox provider, etc…) I’d say that’s exactly what Microsoft is hoping for.