Dorin,
I'm not sure I want to buy into that one. ;-)
At present, much of the discussion is dominated by "Stored Procedure" Soviet-style dogma as usual. Of course you can use SP with Linq to SQL, though at least one MVP says he sees little point. But obviously there's a groundswell building and I'm content to wait.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1