Now that MS have announced the Entity Framework & Data Services (Astoria) to RTM with .Net 3.5 SP1 and VS2008 SP1, I thought I'd ask how the ES team (and users) to compare the two, what are the strengths and weakness of both products and how they relate to one another. Also, does anyone know if ES and Astoria play nicely with one another?

 TJ

In all honestly we just don't have time to compare EntitySpaces to other architectures, we have our hands full with ES2008 right now. We are adding LINQ to SQL to EntitySpaces and are blogs shows it working in our tests and it will be supported in ES2008. Probably later after we get the ES2008 release out will be able to do some research in this area.

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I was in some Entity Framework sessions at Tech Ed and it seems like EntitySpaces is easier to use. There was also a question about support for different database servers. I don't think that Microsoft directly supports other DBs but they say it is an open architecture that allows for the vendors to add support.

See reply in http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/permalink/11948/11946/ShowThread.aspx#11946

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