Borland, Microsoft Move Closer on Databases The two competitors put differences aside to push a new environment on the .NET Framework. [via Internet Product News]
Ah! Now I get it, let's be database specific by bundling developer copies of all the supported databases. So we get one really huge product simply becuase we don't realize that ADO.NET pretty much ensure some degree of DB independence (ODBC delivers the real thing for SQL. but that's old hat! Not).