Framework Proliferation
These days, .net developers are certainly spoilt for choice. There are so many useful frameworks out there, that it has become difficult to decide which one to use. Also, getting to grips with each one requires concerted effort and time to fully understand the pros and cons.
Just take for example ORM frameworks, aside from the many Open Source implementations there are a plethora of commercial ones too.
In my quest to evaluate as many open source frameworks, I found the How-To-Select website, which has a section devoted to O/R Mapping Tools for .NET.
It is particularly interesting to watch the evolution of Open Source in the .net world... now I think I know why the Java folks have JSRs so that there is some commonality between implementations.