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VCSY - A Laughing Place #2
Friday, 8 December 2006
Cease and Cut It Out?
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: VCSY

VCSY received the XML Enabler patent allowance on Wednesday March 29, 2006

http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=96371

Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. Receives a Notice of Allowance From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a Patent Application Covering Various Aspects of the XML Enabler Agent

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 29, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VCSY) announced today that it has received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a patent application serial number 09/882,494 for a "Web-based collaborative data collection system." The notice of allowance states that all 41 patent claims of the patent application are deemed to be allowable to issue in a patent. VCSY intends to file with the USPTO to issue the patent shortly thereafter with all 41 claims being valid and enforceable.

 

This patent application covers various aspects of the XML Enabler Agent. The XML Enabler Agent, which was featured in the "XML Handbook" by Charles Goldfarb, 4th edition was created to XML-enable any database and developed with the Emily XML Scripting Language.

 

Then, world of wonders, WinFS - a long touted application within Microsoft requiring similar capabilities as the allowed patent to run - was cancelled 89 days later by Microsoft Friday June 23, 2006.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060625-7128.html

Microsoft abandons the idea of a standalone WinFS

 WinFS has had a turbulent history. Originally announced as one of the three "pillars" of Windows Vista—the other two being the new Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named "Avalon") user interface layer and the Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") web services layer—WinFS was to revolutionize how users and developers interacted with the files on their computers. In late 2004, Microsoft announced that Vista, then code-named Longhorn, would ship without WinFS. Later it was admitted that WinFS would be delayed even beyond Vista Server, but would be released as a free separate download for both Vista and Windows XP. Beta 1 of WinFS hit MSDN last August, and looked promising. However, Microsoft dropped a hammer on WinFS fans this weekend by revealing that WinFS Beta 2 has been canceled, and the technology behind WinFS is now scheduled to be rolled into the next release of Microsoft's SQL Server product, rather than a standalone release:

    "Since WinFS is no longer being delivered as a standalone software component, people will wonder what that means with respect to the Windows platform. Just as Vista pushed forward on many aspects of the search and organize themes of the Longhorn WinFS effort, Windows will continue to adopt work as it's ready. We will continue working the innovations, and as things mature they will find their way into the right product experiences—Windows and otherwise."

As mentioned above, the difference between the two "announcement" (WinFS being canceled was announced on a blog) dates was 89 days.


90 days would have been on the next day - a Saturday.


Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:56 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 8 December 2006 7:56 PM EST
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