Objects are 'done'
That's a Don Box's sentence, from PDC03, when asking to himself if objects were dead. He said that they were not dead, they were done, in the sense that we should stop thinking as objects as the technology that will take us to the next step.
Workflow is a wonderful thing. I guess it won't be easy for us .NET developers to realize that we need to change the way we build applications, but the ones who do will be in much better shape than the ones who don't.
Now, with a workflow and a business rules engine in the platform (WWF has both), it looks much clear than making your objects contain just data that flows between services and workflows has an interesting number of advantages over building a domain model.
Let's see if domain model heads realize it.