Jon Udell: Microsoft driving toward .Net unity

The InfoWorld Test Center's lead analyst, columnist, and blogger-in-chief says: "LINQ is an extraordinary innovation that turns traditional query inside out. But the bigger story from PDC 2005 is that the .Net vision of unifying many balkanized disciplines within the Microsoft ecosystem is finally becoming a reality." Read Jon's September 21, 2005 "Strategic Developer" column. Not to be outdone by his colleague, Tom Yeager—InfoWorld Test Center's chief technologist—devotes this week's "Ahead of the Curve" column to LINQ. --rj Technorati: LINQ