[dba-Tech] Accessing databases anywhere

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Mar 22 18:23:58 CDT 2010


I was being a bit sarcastic there but W3C was also mentioned in article.
These are truly 2 opposites. ;-) But to give MS their due they are trying to
comply with W3C HTML5 standard in their IE9 beta.

Jim

   

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:54 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Accessing databases anywhere

Oh Puhleease!

How can you use the words "Microsoft" and "standard" in the same sentence
with a straight 
face?

Name one "standard" that Microsoft have ever created!

They have always *created* propietary protocols.

Whenever they have *adopted* a standard protocol they have "expanded and
enhanced" it 
so it within theri own bits and pieces so that it ceases to be a real
standard.

<quote>
At its Mix conference this week, Microsoft touted an interface called the
Open Data Protocol, 
or OData. Specifically, the company announced an OData software developer
kit to let 
programmers more easily use it and said it wants to standardize OData. 
</quote>

Looks like they just want to take control how OData evolves.   See
http://www.odata.org


-- 
Stuart


On 22 Mar 2010 at 9:11, 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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