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Oren Eini has a post that doesn’t pull any punches. All I can say is ditto! At the same time I am so impressed with the direction Scott Guthrie has taken. Don’t know how he manages not to run into the same bureaucratic hassles but it seems that his team is making some good choices. Yes MVC will be the talk of the town for a while, but the real story to me is using Subsonic based code for data access.

There are two reasons I am saying this. First of all, MVC while nice and cool when baked into System.Web, is something that Dan and I have been using for quite some time. Our framework PathNET has had MVC for almost 2 years. Thanks to Dan mostly (gotta give the guy some props). So having MVC is not as big of a deal as the data access story. To me this is where the real interesting stuff takes place. Data Access has been one of those MS genetic afflictions that they’ve messed with since the days of the Dynaset (remember that?) .

Every couple of years without fail someone would come up with yet another version of data access. After so many years it does get tiresome. Therefore any change from the dominant paradigm of data access at MS is welcome. I know, your probably saying “what makes you think that this new code wont change just as much as the old code did”. Your right. I don’t know. But the fact that Scott is able to get this stuff into ASP.NET is big on so many levels. And frankly….. I have more respect for Rob Connery and his skills than some of those folks that have been trying to reinvent the wheel at MS without looking at a schema of a wheel. Wadda mess!