ten years in the making

Derek Curry: A tale of two Cairos

InfoWorld’s Jon Udell pulls together Microsoft’s decade-long search for an object-based, database-like filesystem, web standards, and social networking.

this vision of metadata-enriched storage and query-driven retrieval was, and is, compelling. Making it real wasn’t then, and isn’t now, simply a matter of engineering the right data structures and APIs.

I seem to remember some elements of this in the Be file system . . . . it will be interesting to see a. if this stuff works and b. if anyone else comes up with an alternative.