>Just curious, in your letter you say that part of sedna is written in VB. Well VB.NET or VB 6 ??? :)

Probably VB 9.0, which is the version of VB after VB 2005. VB 2005 will be released in a few weeks (as part of VS 2005). VB 9.0 is a kind of code name of the version of VB for Orcas (the code name for the version of VS after VS 2005, slated for the first half of 2007 - same as Sedna). This way we can use all the new data-centric language features in VB 9.0, and then give out the source code of those Sedna components, etc. Refer to those 2 video interviews/demos I linked to that are on Channel 9, and the content at the new web site http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/. Note that the .NET term has been dropped from many things now, except ADO.NET and ASP.NET. So now VB (from Microsoft) would refer to the latest version of VB being VB 2005.