savas parastatidis

WinFS for Longhorn, Spotlight for MacOS, and now DBFS for Linux

2004-09-06

This is cool. I am looking forward to when all operating systems will move beyond the filesystem abstractions of today for the interaction with end users.

So far… WinFS, Spotlight, and DBFS (just read about it). Does anyone know any other related technologies?

3 responses to “WinFS for Longhorn, Spotlight for MacOS, and now DBFS for Linux”

vinti verma

2004-09-27

GNOME storage project is an effort similar to winfs, spotlight http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/MetaData-Filesystem.htm http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/features.htmll
Savas Parastatidis

2004-09-27

Thanks Vinti! Didn’t know about it. Cool!
Felix

2005-04-16

While cleaning up my RSS reader, I stumbled over this old entry… Thought you might be interested in hearing about StorageBox, which is a Personal Database with an RDF-compatible data model, automatic bidirectional metadata sync. with files, WebDAV access, Python hackable. We are about to release, check http://www.storagebox.org/ in a few weeks.