I'm really happy to see that Oracle has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio partner program and that later this year it will release a free software download for Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net 2003 development tools.
This could be an improvement for applications that use Oracle databases and I hope it could be soon translated into a more simple way to interact with Oracle's DB.
This new interest that Oracle seems to have on .NET is really a good thing (but I think that Java will remain their favourite platform to support) ! 