Microsoft plows under 'Kodiak' name
crn.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft has deep-sixed plans for Kodiak, a huge planned upgrade to Exchange Server 2003. Now the plan is to parse out promised capabilities, better security, spam control, etc., in a more incremental release next year called Exchange Edge Services, company executives said Tuesday.
The Kodiak game plan had been bruited about for years now, and the cornerstone was to be a relational store based on SQL Server technology. Cracks started to appear in that game plan last year, as reported by CRN. Delays to the WinFS file system and Kodiak's dependency on that were an issue, sources said.