Entity Framework & LINQ To SQL - Conflict of interest?

Question

I\'ve been reading on the blogosphere for the past week that Linq to SQL is dead [and long live EF and Linq to Entities]. But when I read the overview on MSDN, it appeared to m

Answer 1

A big difference between Linq to SQL and Entity Framework is that EF implements the Entity Data Model specification (EDM), and there are other products that are built around the EDM, like ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria).

The EDM is now being used to extend the AtomPub in a new spec called Open Data Protocol (OData http://odata.org/), which is used to standarize CRUD on top of REST.