I am looking at Vista and Longhorn with the hope that I can dump a third
party SQL Server database driven Document Management System. I would like to
know whether Vista and Longhorn are / will be capable of doing the following
file management tasks:
file caching, attribute definitions, document code generation, saved
searches, forms generation, conditional branching, workflows, and scanning
references or OLE docs. These are currently available in the DMS I use. I
also read that Win FS was to be relational, is this no longer the case with
Vista?

John Evans wrote:[color=blue]
> I am looking at Vista and Longhorn with the hope that I can dump a third
> party SQL Server database driven Document Management System. I would like
> to know whether Vista and Longhorn are / will be capable of doing the
> following file management tasks:
> file caching, attribute definitions, document code generation, saved
> searches, forms generation, conditional branching, workflows, and scanning
> references or OLE docs. These are currently available in the DMS I use. I
> also read that Win FS was to be relational, is this no longer the case
> with Vista?[/color]

WinFS was removed from Vista well before Vista was finished and the WinFS
project has now taken a different direction. For more info on the status of
WinFS see [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/[/url].

You can't pull off what you want with Windows alone.
--
Tom Porterfield