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Microsoft bolsters Web-accessible data plan
Microsoft is putting some meat on the bones of its plan to make information that's stuck in databases reachable with the same standards used to retrieve Web pages.
At its Mix conference this week, Microsoft touted an interface called the Open Data Protocol, or OData. Specifically, the company announced an OData software developer kit to let programmers more easily use it and said it wants to standardize OData.
What fortuitous timing. Microsoft listed the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and World Wide Web Constortium (W3C) as groups where it would like to see this standardization, and the latter of … Read more
