Fundamentally, it's a shift from Office as a bag of tools to a platform that companies use to run their business.
LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.
During the peak of the internet bubble, the leading database management system vendors were getting out of touch in terms of their pricing.
They did not get a lot of energy behind their open-source initiative, ... Just declaring that something is open source does not mean it is going to be popular.
I expect astounding things coming in the future, but we need a reset on the market projections and hype of today.
If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.
I have no reason to believe that this will pose a significant challenge to any already open database management systems.
The market is changing so that it's not so much about an individual slice of the product stack at this point. It's more about customers saying, 'We want you to be our end-to-end supplier, not just somebody who is solving one part of the problem for us'.
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