>Dropping OleDb? I hadn't heard that. I always thought that OleDb was preferable to ODBC!! Do you mean just for the Jet provider or all? The Sql Server provider is OleDb ... are you saying that's going away too?!?!
I think he was referring to the Jet engine. I wouldn't see the SQLClient data provider to be removed. That is the fastest data adapter driver I have seen to access SQL Server and it is built it .NET.