ORM Goes Open Source

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 30, 2004 @01:56AM from the tools-for-use dept.

grd000 writes "I have been using Olero Software's Object Relational Mapping and Code Generation Tool (ORM) for Microsoft .NET for the last year or so with great success. I'm delighted to say that yesterday, the Olero folks decided to release their $495 tool as open source. I'm not sure what prompted the decision. Sluggish sales? In any event, this is a boon for .NET developers. ORM speeds up development by generating a C# or VB-targeted object based on a given database schema. Inserts, updates and deletes can be performed using simple or complex criteria in just a few lines of source code, and with transactional support."

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Re:Surprising by anomalous+cohort · 2004-08-31 05:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's surprising that they released it as open source
When I first read this /. artical, I downloaded ORM and tried it out. It appears to me that the classes are dependent on a single DataSet that contains the entire database. Ha, ha, not very useful.

I'm surprised that they were able to get anyone to pay them for it.