On 10/11/2011 4:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > 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
But it took them this many years to throw in the towel on OLE-DB? > > 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.... Ooooh! I'm putting money on that square. Nice bet. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ 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/[email protected] ** 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.
