http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=282I had been anticipating the release of Web Matrix 2.0, but was pretty disappointed with the blatant attempts to lock users into SQL Server and ACCESS (of course I know that manual imports are possible re. my .net provider for non Microsoft databases, but that's beside the point). From the feature list: Easy Data UI Generation.  Web Matrix makes it easy to create data bound pages without writing code. Drop SQL/MSDE or Access tables on your page to create data-bound grids, or start with Data Page templates for reports or Master/Detail pages. Code builders help you generate code to select, insert, update and delete SQL/MSDE or Access data.  [via WebLogs @ ASP.NET] It only makes it easy for two databases which are both Microsoft owned? What really baffles me is why they don't use ADO.NET, by the way this is their own data abstraction technology. The same approach has also been applied to InfoPath and this is certainly a disturbing trend for unsuspecting end-users, developers, systems architects, and decision makers. Before you know it you lose your database choices.   Could this be an oversight on the part of Microsoft? I don't think so somehow, we are taking a very interesting journey here from database independence to database specificity ( ODBC->OLEDB-ADO.NET-[SQL Server|Acces] ), all in a quest to covertly reduce choices (I think I've seen this movie before! And I might have to rewrite the script).  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:02:22 GMTVirtuoso Universal Server 08.03.3334Kingsley Uyi Idehenhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/weblog/public/images/vbloglogo.gifhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=282I have seen the future and it's full of Linked Data! :-)8831