From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:33:06 -0700, "Rich"  wrote:

>I can say that productizing as a verb is not double speak.
>It gets used all the time to describe taking a technology,
>prototype, internal tool, etc and making it or incorporating
>it into a product.  To someone who speaks English
>you would think the meaning would be clear.

  It is easy to guess what the speaker meant, but I'm with Gary on this.
It's a lofty sounding non-word that makes one think something of interest
will follow.

   More on topic, here's a better discussion of WinFS and what might have
been.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.357131.42

  While I think that in another universe and and earlier integration of the
operating system, WinFS might have been a good tool, the benefits are no
longer as relevant in today's world.   Want to find all those Word
Documents with one-to-many and many-to-one relationships in a WinFS DB? If
users don't enter tags, hierarchy, and metadata information into a Word
document today, why would we expect that they would enter that information
into WinFS or a Word Document stored in WinFS?

   It's just as well that it is not being included into Vista/Longhorn.
Just another headache and more overhead with minimal to no payback.

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