The framework will continue to grow with the ADO.NET technology...the framework, at present, uses ADO.NET internally, so this will happen as a bi-product and without any special consideration.

Any Comment ?

I wonder your plans to integrate with this technology.

"Microsoft is deepening its investment in the ADO.NET Entity Framework as a critical piece of Microsoft’s Data Platform vision."

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/04/28/ado-net-entity-framework-update.aspx