The Microsoft Web Storage System is a database technology that you can use to store, share, and manage heterogeneous data, such as e-mail messages, Web pages, multimedia files, and Microsoft Office 2000 documents.
The Web Storage System is organized, much like a traditional file system, in a hierarchy of folders. Each folder in the Web Storage System can contain any number of items, including other folders. You can access items in the Web Storage System using many protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs), including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.5, OLE DB 2.5, Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (CDOEX), Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), through the file system, and by using other industry-standard wire protocols.