A part of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), it provides a middleware layer between programming languages and OLE DB (a means of accessing data stores, whether databases or not, in a uniform manner).
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At TechEd 1999 conference during its rollout of Windows 2000 Beta, Microsoft introduced COM+ in-memory database (IMDB) that provided an application with fast access to data through databases that supported OLE DB connectivity, without incurring the overhead associated with storing and accessing data to and from physical disks.
PowerBuilder offers native interfaces to all major databases, as well as ODBC and OLE-DB, in the Enterprise version.
The database managers support access using many common distributed data access protocols and APIs including JDBC, OLE DB, and ODBC.
Windows Vista includes only the WebDAV redirector, but if you install a version of Office, Internet Explorer, OLE-DB or "Microsoft Update for Web Folders" you will get the original "Web folders" client.