Effective Thoughts

Last night we held our bi-monthly practice meeting at the office. One of the guys on my team presented LINQ . We got to talking about the ADO.Net Entity Framework and someone wondered about vendor support. InfoQ is reporting this morning eight vendors have already jumped on board issuing their support in the near future. Beta3 of the framework released two weeks ago so I'm looking for an RTM maybe early Q2...?

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