>>I have not read this article yet, but as I know System.Data.ADO is a part of .NET framework and still based on OLE DB technology.
>>XML proposed as universal format of storing and transferring data and can't replace any technology of data accessing.
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>To replace the "data accessing" piece of OLE DB, the article discussed some additional pieces (based on XML) that need to be into place to make this thing work. I wouldn't not venture to explain this piece since I am still trying to understand it myself ;)
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>>>I was reading "The XML Files" on MSDN magazine (Sep/2001, page 31) and they say:
>>>"[...]it seems obvious that OLE DB would never become a true universal standard for exposing information because it faced competition from other vendors. Since OLE DB is a COM technology and COM itself never became universally supported across platforms, it never really stood a chance."
>>>Boy this is certainly a surprise to me. MS is openly disaccrediting their own stuff, that "incredible and powerful" technology that they advertised and pushed so much just a few years ago.
>>>The new technology to replace OLE DB accorgind to this article is, of course, XML.
>>>I wonder what MS will say about .NET a few years from now...

Hector;

Chances are no one "understands" how XML will access data in the "new world". At this point it may be a marketing vision.

Tom