Dare collects some musings by Jon Udell, Jeremy Mazner, and himself on the advisability of WinFS.
I have two thoughts on this:
- It seems to me that WinFS and the semantic web are trying to solve similar problems and have the same semantics issues.
- The argument to have XML everywhere is hollow because people want to work with objects. SMO on SQL Server 2005 vs WMI on SQL Server 2000 should teach us that.