Microsoft just made the VSIP program free of charge.
Awesome.
[via The
Scobleizer Weblog]
Now this is good news from Microsoft! This means that products
like Virtuoso can
now compete head-on with Yukon (on a level playing field when it
arrives) as far as Visual Studio.NET integration goes. Hopefully I
will no longer have to rant about any of the following:
- Missing Data Access Controls and Wizards for ODBC (we already
have annbsp interesting Generic ADO.NET Provider en route to GA
release)
- Tightly bound integration between Visual Studio.NET
("Whidbey" or "Orcas")nbspand Yukon (next release of SQL
Server), it's up to us (OpenLink) to get the same degree of
integration re. Virtuoso (via VSIP), but most importantly Visual
Studio's future will not be inextricably linked to Yukon's (let's
hope the same applies to IE and Longhorn)
I wonder if the same degree of openness could extend to Web
Matrix? That would be something indeed!