Question

I have just won 1 Telerik Premium Collection for .NET Developer with subscription (lucky me!) and was wondering whether the OpenAccess ORM is worth learning? Has anyone thrown away their open source variant and are now using the Telerik ORM tools instead?

Are there any benefits from using the Telerik ORM tools instead of an open source variant?

Any thought suggestions?

Answer 1

I’m a happy telerik customer for more than 5 years. I used their ORM only in one solution and never used an open source ORM.

Throw away the existing one?
NO – if you have no problems and the thing does what it should do I wouldn’t change.
That has nothing to do with quality or other aspects of telerik ORM.
It’s just a matter of fact that using a new product means to learn new things, solve some solved things again in a different way and so on.

BUT – if you have problems (or must make compromises) with your current product it’s sure worth to give it a try.

Without knowing other ORMs I have one clear point why I would try telerik ORM.
It’s their (telerik’s) outstanding support.
None of my other vendors offers / does what telerik does.
Simply take a look at their forums http://www.telerik.com/community/forums.aspx and you’ll see what I mean.

You have a problem – they solve it; and that with very fast response times.

And that’s a point you should think about when making a decision about ORM (or any other kind of product).