I found this interesting. This is the first I have heard of OLE DB.

Disclaimer: no offense meant to anyone involved in ODBC: not those who
are successfully using it or planning to do so, nor to HP, and least of
all to M. B. Foster Associates, who have provided ODBCLink as a product
and as an FOS driver, and who probably know more about this than I ever
will (I would welcome their take on this). And if there is an opinion
here, it is mine.

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>________Simba Upgrades ODBC Middleware___________
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>While Microsoft touts its emerging OLE DB interface specification,
>Simba says there's still plenty of life left in ODBC, the
>database spec that OLE DB will eventually replace.
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