We need to consolidate our O/R Mappers

I came across a post from  Richard Hundhausen  that listed out all the .NET O/R Mappers that are currently out there.  I think we need to consolidate!  How is somebody supposed to choose from that many choices.

I have a homegrown O/R Mapper that I've been using for a while that I've been considering ditching for something like NHibernate.  Having so many choices to pick from makes deciding which one to use should I ditch my own a bit more painful.  Is the market for O/R Mappers big enough for that many competitors?  I vote for some consolidation, oh and if you're thinking about writing your own commercial O/R Mapper, please don't. **

** If on the other hand you're looking for a fun project...go for it, writing an O/R Mapper brings up all kinds of interesting challenges that you might not have to think about on "boring old business apps" ;-)

# re: We need to consolidate our O/R Mappers

Monday, March 21, 2005 4:52 AM by Frans Bouma    
There are many tools, but there are few who have a large legion of followers. This is the same on Java though.

The market is big enough though for a few large players. Time will tell who those large players will be. Though you dont have to look very far to see who is doing well now and who is struggling.

# re: We need to consolidate our O/R Mappers

Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:18 AM by They Say    
Those with proper ancillary services (code-level) and programming ease will be what win out for a variety of reasons.

This will also be important (though admittedly a long time away) when C# 3.0 comes out.

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