June 14, 2005

You mean it supports .NET too???!!!

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I have to admit, I didn't see this one coming at all.

Oh wait, yes I did. I don't know about you guys but guess who I'm going to hire to throw my next surprise party?

What?

Data Direct?

You must be kidding... I was refering to the Macromedia/Adobe PR/Media team that pulled off the greatest corporate hat trick in the modern computer age.

The only surprise party Data Direct is... ahhh.... I forgot, I called off the Data Direct hounds.

Damn!

I know about 20 more people who all called the "XQuery for the .NET People" hoax at or about the same time I did so cheers to each of you. Mind you I don't think any of us plan to get all dressed up and celebrate our "genius" for calling this one. This one was as easy to call as the outcome of the Tyson fight. Actually, I gave the old decrepid ear and baby eater a slight edge over Data Directs odds of not producing a .NET XQuery solution a month or two after going to "all that effort" to find enough people who actually believed it was possible to still get XQuery into a feature frozen release of the .NET platform. Speaking of the toofwiss oneder what on earth causes a person to mutter "I will eat your baby" who, as far as I know was raised on the streets of New York and not by a tribe of cannibals... well, I guess depending on what part of New York/Jersey he was raised in it could be difficult to tell the difference between that and a blood-thirsty tribe of human-flesh-eaters but we're WAY off topic... or are we? ;)

The funny thing about this is that the XQuery support the old ballot stuffers are touting is in direct competition with the one Microsoft product platform that actually does have XQuery support, SQL Server 2005 and Sequel Server Express. Actually maybe they do offer support of raw XML XQuery support but I only read the first few sentence of the above linked product beta announcement. I did notice support for SQL Server 2000 and Oracle.NET (and a few others) so I guess theres that. But Saxon offers the same data base independent support of XQuery of which I specifically left out of Saxon.NET as it seemed like a good policy to avoid spending time implementing support for something that is already supported by MS directly. But, if only to spite DD, I'm now wondering if I should spend a few hours and implement that part of Saxon into Saxon.NET.

At least this would give a free alternative... Oh wait... SQL Server Express is free... Well, I'll see how it looks and if its nothing but a few lines of hacks and a recompile then its probably worth the effort.

Enjoy your evening :D