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23 August, 2008 (09:35) | General

Frans talks about a couple of points regarding the MS EF. The only thing that comes to mind is that MS in the past has been accused of only listening to internal people and disregarding what the working developers in the industry have to say. I wouldn’t necessarily put Stephen Forte in that group. He is a special case for many reasons. But there have been “Insiders” for as long as MS has been creating developer products. Seems their role has changed over the years.

The problem with “Insiders” or the Council of Wise Men as Frans calls them is the fact that very few of them know ORM technology at the level needed by a manufacturer like MS, hence their advise is flawed. I am sure that wacky Object Caching Service employed by EF stems from a lack of knowledge. Maybe not on the part of an Insider but certainly on the part of the Product Team. Not only is MS finally coming around and building something that Frans has had in production for 5+ years, they are building it in a crappy way. That’s sad. There have been countless times when I had to argue against the MS Marketing machine which influenced my customers decision makers.

I have had an opportunity to work with some of the code and services exposed by MS products like Project Server Enterprise Web Services and I have to tell you its some very very scary stuff. So I am not even sure that Frans’ hope of good devs working inside MS, who are just not being listened to, is very realistic. Fact is that once you level the playing field with a framework like .NET, you end up actually competing with some very good people who do not work at MS. That’s the fun part. Anyway, in my mind Frans is on the money here.

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