Should your data become objects or your objects become data? That’s the debate. If you build apps focused around objects and just want those suckers persisted then you want your objects to become data. If you’ve got a database and you are building apps around that data using an object-oriented language you probably want your data to become objects. Which is more prevalent, I don’t know, probably the latter.
What I am certain of, however, is that many people out there are struggling with data some way or another. You've got your ADO.Net, or just plain ADO, or maybe you're an Einstein and do it all against OLEDB or ODBC or some other API du jour, and if you were still writing quick and dirty apps these API's would suffice. I know. I've done it too.
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