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Microsoft kills Visual Studio's Oracle data connection

<h4>Swift reaction: "Sucks," "shortsighted"</h4> <p>Coders have reacted with disappointment and frustration to Microsoft's decision to cease development of a connector to Oracle in its .NET Framework, a move that looks like another budget cut.?</p><p><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/696/smartprotection-whitepaper.pdf?td=rss">Offloading malware protection to the cloud</a></p>