Thanks for the insight on the topic. Does not look promising. My efforts in building my .NET skills (which I have been casually working at for the past 4 years or so) need to intensify.

When I went to the Linq session at Mix07 in Vegas this year, I noted a significant restructure of data access methodology. I many some ways, it reminded me of fox. My insight was not have been too far off.

thanks, vince