I use NHibernate and LINQ to SQL on a site that supports millions of end users. Murray Gordon, an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, has written a nice synopsis of the Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence debate so far. More than anything else I've read on the subject, this article brings together facts and opinions that seem to ring true from my deep experience.

I'd like to go on record and say that the way this is being handle by the MVPs who signed the petition is unprofessional, in my opinion. Microsoft MVPs are not required to tow the line and agree with everything that Microsoft says and does. But there are ways to communicate with Microsoft that are constructive and there are ways that would make any corporation, including Microsoft, digs its heels into the dirt. This petition used the latter strategy unfortunately. In particular, Microsoft MVPs have channels that the rest of us don't have. They should use them and not the blogosphere to make plain there grievances.

In some sense, I feel as though the signatories of the petition feel like they are playing Continental Congress against King George. But there's no Boston Tea Party here. Microsoft didn't raise any undue taxes from any of us. They simply put out a framework that's clearly a v1.0 product. Microsoft doesn't win with v1.0 products. It wins with version 4 products because as a corporation, it knows how to get the first down (an American football term meaning the team gets to stay on the offensive).

I say let Microsoft run the ball for a few plays and let's see how they do.