[dba-Tech] Accessing databases anywhere

" ... make information that's stuck in databases reachable with the same 
standards used to retrieve Web pages ...", sickly comic even for M$oft..

PB

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Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Microsoft is working to create another standard protocol and this protocol
> will give developers (and eventually power users) easy access to data, from
> any database, over the internet...
>
> I do not know why a specific protocol is needed if it will just create
> another Asynchronous standard like XML or AJAX but I am sure I am missing
> something. If on the other hand this is a synchronous standard, I would be
> amazed. Tight binding of the BE and FE is a dead, especially over the
> unstable internet and it limited band-width... or maybe it is a streaming
> data format?
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000783-264.html
>
> Maybe one of you other very bright guys can check further as I am in a
> client's office and may be pulled away at any time. ;-)
>
> Jim    
>
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