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Does anyone in the MSFT community care about OData?

OData is touted as the new open standard for data services such as REST, but I cannot find much evidence that it is used in anger by anyone who is not connected to the MSFT development community. If it were an open standard, I would expect some increase in cohesion with the Java / Ruby / Python / PHP communities.

The background behind the question is that I am considering creating some open (public) apis data, and OData seems like an obvious route to go down, it seems like the web development community really doesn't care?

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According to a recent PDC lecture by Pablo Castro, there are already (at least planned) servers and services from IBM and SAP. Client libraries for Java, PHP, and Ruby already exist. But widespread use of the standard outside the Microsoft community may remain visible.

In any case, if you provide your data with this standard, your consumers will usually not have problems receiving this data from you. And that could be important.

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For me, the benefits of OData are less related to the fact that developers consume APIs (because REST already makes this easy), but even more so, allowing non-developers to transfer data to an OData-compatible application like Excel.

Now, when I say, I still think it has huge benefits for developers consuming your API. Take a look at this jquery plugin. http://github.com/egil/jquery.odata/wiki

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I believe IBM is behind this as well, but I'm not sure to what extent.

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