What is LINQ hosting and should I care?

In terms of ISPs and webhosting, what is LINQ hosting? What does it give me as a developer or a site admin?

I've looked around and all the sites I found fail to explain what LINQ hosting is. They explain what LINQ is but fall short on the hosting part.

What are you using LINQ hositng for?

EDIT 1: I know what LINQ is and love it! Why a开发者_运维问答re ISPs offering something inherent in the framework?

Edit 2: Examples include: http://winhost.com/

http://www.arvixe.com/linq_hosting

http://www.windowshostingasp.net/Hosting_ASP.NET_plans/Hosting_ASP_NET_LINQ.aspx - from their website, "The ASP.NET LINQ Hosting plan means that the Windows hosting provider support MS LINQ (Language Integrated Query) hosting."

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It's a cheap trick for advertising.

Linq is getting to be a hot subject and they try to score easy contracts with managers that have no clue except that the tech people said they used linq for the new project ;)

I mean "Fully adheres to all LINQ hosting system requirements", what requirements?

Does that mean that if I need a linq provider for an old Paradox database they do that :D

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Linq is hosted by the .NET framework. It isn't something an ISP needs to offer or can offer.