>I don't think it will lose appeal. It is about the most flexible thing out there. It can be anything you need it to be...
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I've had some confusion on what seemed to be competing technologies in some respects...both can be used to pass data around. I asked about this at a MS seminar I attended a couple of weeks ago. The reply was that MS is now pushing ADO to access the data and XML to pass it around. Have you seen anything from MS on this?

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>This is a good discussion...

Yes, it is.

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