As of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios, as opposed to Linq2Sql
Interesting for us as we use Linq2Sql in some cases so we will change our raodmap.
See:
http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx
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