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Microsoft has announced a data web services framework called Astoria. I've not been able to access the website and play with it, but according to the blogosphere reports, its a framework for data web services. Alex Barnett has the best explanation with concrete examples.

http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/

Around the blogosphere...

IMHO, this looks a lot like Microsoft's attempt at standardizing data access over SQL (OLEDB). Grand, but doomed. I'm not gonna right-it-off until I give it a test drive, but I've got that "Yet Another Framework" feeling.

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