Have you seen Drew Speedie's blog entry on this topic? Here is the link:

http://blog.visionpace.com/2005/07/net_does_data_n.html


>Hi Sarosh,
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>But the guy doesn't even know what the "4" in 4GL stands for! Egads!
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>A lot of work is being done to make .Net more data friendly. I can personally attest to this, being a very recent ex-MSFT guy. I won't go into details but veyr very cool things are being done.
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>>Anders Hejlsberg : I think interestingly that there's sort of a resurgence of interest in dynamic languages.
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>>Interesting atricle:
>>http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1837434,00.asp
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>>Sarosh