Sorry if spin control sounded harsh. I didn’t think that you were being disingenuous or even that MS necessarily made a bad decision from a strategic standpoint in deciding to consolidate their efforts and redirect most of the resources to the Entity Framework.

I do, however, think that many developers who decided to invest time in learning the technology and building it into existing apps probably gave a collective groan after they got the news.

Even with promises of future support, it’s hard to feel like you haven’t wasted a bunch of time when your technology of choice doesn’t make the strategic cut.

Choosing a technology that will help your career and existing applications flourish already feels a little bit like playing the stock market. What you guys now are experiencing is emotionally driven “sell off” that follows suspicious news in the market place.