On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think this has anything to do with open standards. MS is just > abandoning yet another losing effort to create/steamroller/enforce a > proprietary 'standard' of their own devising. > > This one didn't work. MS Word did. +1 I've been using ODBC and the FreeTDS drivers to access SQL Server from Linux and BSD platforms. It's a PITA. Still lots of compatibility issues, especially when you try to agree on Unicode, code pages, collation, etc. It's a far from open platform. My suspicion is that they're endorsing ODBC (note, a well-defined, cross-platform API) because they can't get their proprietary object-bound APIs to work on their own platforms, perhaps Windows Phone or the non-Intel Windows tablets.... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tF271pa6e2AkBtbYmHkvhA9=-kaegwjvuvtmo98ru...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
