LINQ to SQL..... she is dead, deceased .. just something in the past

Following bunch of announcements about .NET 4.0, ADO.NET team makes a not so surprising announcement that LINQ to SQL is dead in favour of the .NET Entity Framework (http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx).