Entity Framework 3rd Party Providers

You may have already noticed 11 days back Entity Framework matured out of beta. Luckily, I've already got projects running EF and will be definitely blogging around some best practices and issues later time. But for now, I'm just sharing the following list of soon-to-be 3rd party providers for EF:

Providers Planning Publicly Available Versions in 2008 (Q3 & Q4 CY2008):

• Devart (formerly Core Lab) - Providing connectivity to Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases
• Firebird - Providing connectivity to Firebird databases
• IBM - Providing connectivity to both IBM DB2 data server and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) database
• Npgsql - Providing connectivity to PostgreSQL database versions 7.3+ and 8.x
• OpenLink Software - Providing connectivity to OpenLink Virtuoso, Oracle, Informix, Ingres, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Progress and Microsoft SQL Server databases, and any data source accessible via OpenLink ODBC or JDBC bridge drivers
• Phoenix Software Solutions - Providing connectivity to SQLite databases
• Sun Microsystems - Providing connectivity to MySQL databases
• Sybase - Providing connectivity to SQL Anywhere databases
• VistaDB Software - Providing connectivity to VistaDB database

Providers Planning Publicly Available Versions in Early 2009 (Q1 CY2009):

• Synergex - Providing connectivity to Synergy/DE databases

Providers Committed to Supporting the Entity Framework:

• DataDirect Technologies - Providing connectivity to multiple data stores including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2 via DataDirect Connect® for ADO.NET

Third Party Provider Support for the Entity Framework RTM

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