I've been playing with Ruby on Rails, and there's a lot to like. There are some things that we won't be able to get while working in C#, but we could build some stuff to get closer. I know there are some people working on porting RoR to .NET but I prefer an approach that instead of porting it, it tries...

LinQ is very cool and we all agree with that. DLinQ seems oriented towards being a simple way to access data that covers most of the simple cases. I think it will add a lot of value to the .NET platform. Now, if you are looking for a 'real' O/R mapping it seems that you'll need to look somewhere else...