ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

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The signatories of this letter are unanimous in expressing concern for the welfare of software projects undertaken in the Microsoft customer community that will make use of the forthcoming ADO .NET Entity Framework... Inordinate focus the data aspect of entities leads to degraded entity architectures ***Excess code needed to deal with lack of lazy loading ***Shared, canonical model contradicts software best practices ***Lack of persistence ignorance causes business logic to be harder to read, write, and modify, causing development and maintenance costs to increase at an exaggerated rate ***Excessive merge conflicts with source control in team environments