Great write up by Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft Data Development Technologies: Past, Present, and Future, also author of Inside Ole, for those who remember that technology.
He is currently a Program Manager at Microsoft for SQL Modeling Servcies (aka Oslo). His post walks through the early 1990’s from DB-Library, ODBC, OLE DB, RDO, ADO, ADO.NET, LINQ. Up through Entity Framework, WCF Data Services (code name Astoria) and now the “M” language and Quadrant.
Data Services transform any number of diverse data sources into something accessible through a simple REST-based exchange protocol.
In fact, Microsoft expects that using such protocols will become increasingly popular, as it allows data providers and consumers to evolve independently from their programming model.
Taken as a whole, this trend can be described as a trend toward modeling.
via Doug Purdy
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