From what I can see from monitoring the dbi mailing list, news of dbi's death is quite premature. Tim Bunce author of DBI seems as committed as ever and is already looking ahead to how to keep dbi migrating into perl 6 when the time comes. I'd love to know who (what your sources) are on dbi dying. On the surface it sure looks like you've made a very irresponsible post.

coreolyn Duct tape devotee.
-- That's OO Perl, not Oh! Oh! perl :)