What's coming in ADO.NET Video
Here’s a great excerpt from the What’s coming in ADO.NET video on channel 9. Tim Mallalieu was speaking and it’s around 41:50 into the video:
Well actually that was exactly the point I was trying to make. One of the things that Pablo just said there was making it just plumbing and making it disappear, and I think that’s important. The other is that as a company we’re talking about all these new ways to think about applications. We’re talking about web 2.0, we’re talking about service oriented architecture in the enterprise and the issue is that when we talk about these as a company the piece that we have not become mature about is the data stack.. right. Actually take that broader, go and look at SOA in the enterprise today and you have people talking about the enterprise service bus, you have them talking about all kinds of stuff and you know what, they’re talking about plumbing.. and the plumbing they’re talking about isn’t even the piece that is the keys to the castle. The keys to the castle is the data and the enterprise reason we moved to SOA in the first place was because of the data. So Pablo’s talking about the model at the ?? level right. To me nirvana is ten years from now, we’re talking about this, it’s all plumbing and it doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if it was in the database. It doesn’t matter if it was just some WSDL file that I was looking at. It doesn’t matter if it was a web mashup. It just doesn’t matter. It’s just the same set of APIs. It’s really easy for the end user and a lot of the investment that we’re doing today is the tax to play in the right story…
I’ll comment more on this in a later post, but it struck the proverbial chord with me.