Good grief. I'm really growing tired of "can't trust MS". There really is no company you can trust. Open Source is no better. Projects come and go.
Today's announcement should come as no surprise. OLEDB is a COM-based technology and Microsoft has been killing off COM for the past few years.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/08/29/microsoft-aligning-with-odbc.aspx>
>Back to ODBC. Who said that M$ could be trusted with anything?
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer