.NET and Oracle

It's fun to see some love-hate relationships. Early on, Oracle bet on Java, so much so that only after Microsoft created its Oracle ADO.NET data provider and under pressure of the growing popularity of .NET, Oracle created its own ADO.NET data provider. And now increasingly, Oracle is accepting and taking positive steps about the popularity of .NET:

1. Watch the new .NET Developer Center at OTN
2. Check out the Beta 2 of Oracle Developers Tools for Visual Studio .NET, an add-in for working with Oracle from VS.NET (but if they don't hurry VS 2005 will be here ;-)

Oh, and I almost forgot: thank you Kevin Schuler for pointing me to these resources.