DevHawk not thrilled about Astoria either

It appears that more people are coming to the same conclusions that I have about Astoria (Astoria, SDO, and Irrelevance), Microsoft's new "Data Services for the Web" initiative.

DevHawk (aka Harry Pierson) writes:

As you might guess then, I’m not a fan of Astoria. I believe the sweet spot for so called “data services” will be read only (because they don't need transactions, natch). I'm sure there are some read/write scenarios Astoria will be useful for, but I think they will be limited - at least within the enterprise.

After catching up to Pablo Castro (the man behind Astoria) at DevTeach, and chatting with him and Tim Mall about Astoria, I heard something interesting. In order to provide business context for updates, you will be able to use something like a WS-Action header.

So, it's based on REST, but for updates, it's like WS-*. Hmm... Best of both worlds, or worst? What do you think?

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