The long road to Yukon
C|Net | at | by Mike
For months, Microsoft watchers have voiced concerns that delays in the company's introduction of its Yukon database software could derail other products, including a new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. But Microsoft executives dispute that notion. They told CNET News.com that the delivery of Yukon--which marks the debut of the company's key unified storage technology--won't affect other future products.
The company also for the first time gave insight into the difficulty of building the new storage technology--a pet project of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for more than a decade and one of the most ambitious and time-consuming projects the company has ever attempted.