http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspxMatt has a very good post on the history of object relational framework inside Microsoft. He and I started the whole ObjectSpaces thing together very many years ago (about six and a half). I thought I should add my two cents. You might be wonderingen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3316275Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:30:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3316275lucabol<p>Orcas was the codename for the whole Visual Studio release. The code name for the objectspaces project was Cheops (I know because I came up with it :-) )</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3316275" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3314629Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:24:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3314629Roger Jennings<p>Luca,</p> <p>You mention that ObjectSpaces was code-named &quot;Cheops&quot;, but I recall the first preview from PDC was called &quot;Orca.&quot; If so, did Orca stand for &quot;Object Relational Component Architecture?&quot;</p> <p>Just checking facts.</p> <p>Ciao,</p> <p>--rj</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/language-integrated-query-linq-project.html">http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/language-integrated-query-linq-project.html</a> and </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/entity-framework-updates.html">http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/entity-framework-updates.html</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3314629" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3184344Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:13:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3184344Luca Quintarelli<p>E' da un p&#242; che leggo il tuo blog, fare l'architect in Microsoft penso sia il sogno di &nbsp;molti, anche il mio quando avevo 20 anni, cos'&#236; ora ti leggo cercando di immaginare l'atmosfera :)</p> <p>Ho apprezzato molto la frase sui bad,good and excellent programmer condivido al 110%</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3184344" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3145096Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:06:12 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3145096Paolo Pialorsi<p>Segnalo un post di Luca Bolognese, nostro connazionale e Lead PM di LINQ, che ripercorre gli ultimi 6</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3145096" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3144371Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:30:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3144371The Wayward WebLog<p>Luca has a blog post that says some kind words about me in regards to our work together on ObjectSpaces.</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3144371" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3144021Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:19:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3144021stefan demetz<p>Ciao,</p> <p>finalmente c'e' linq ...</p> <p>cmq, c'e' una societa' italiana (di un mio amico) che ha un' ORM da una dozzina d'anni ....</p> <p>con versioni in SmallTalk, Java e .NET</p> <p>il tutto antecedente/derivante da tecnologia TopLink (che Oracle ha comprato qualche anno fa)</p> <p>funziona una meraviglia altro che Hibernate, e' in produzione da anni in grosse banche ed assicurazioni a Milano </p> <p>cmq, state facendo un' ottimo lavoro su .NET, e' fenomenale rispetto a Java</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3144021" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucabol/archive/2007/06/07/objectspaces-early-days.aspx#3143128Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:10:09 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3143128Philip Coupar<p>I remember seeing Object Spaces at PDC in 2001 ,I think. &nbsp;It is great to see that good ideas eventually make it into the mainstream products.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3143128" width="1" height="1">