Eric's speaking on lots of overview stuff, with just enough technical info to keep it interesting and enough business information to get my juices flowing.

Indigo Day Theme - What should you do today, to prepare for Web Services in the future?

Notes:

• W3C recommendations are improving, including MTOM and WS-AtomicTransactions.
• Indigo's 3 areas: Productivity (attribute based, VS integration), Interoperability (WS-* specs), and Service-Oriented Development (loosely coupled, config based communication)
• Lots of focus on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) support in Indigo.
• Indigo services will be built using VS 2005.  Indigo is an extension of the .NET Framework.

Ari Bixhorn's up for a demo.  Got a big ol' bandage on his head.  The demo's focused on a hospital experience.  (Whoops, it's not a bandage, it's the heart rate monitor.)

• Lots of drag/drop, graphical functionality.
• Pretty cool demo, with a heart rate and brain wave monitor.
• Fun demo to watch.  He's changing the Web Services to go over HTTP from TCP.
• Now packets are being dropped, since it's HTTP over several intermediaries.  So, we need reliability.
• He simply adds the reliability attribute (and a security attribute) and bingo! 
• Also, changes the security model using a simple config file.  This follows the good SOA model of changing non-business logic stuff in the configuration, not the code.

Eric's Back Up:

• BizTalk isn't going away
  • 2005 - WSE 1.0 Support
  • 2006 - Adapter for Indigo
  • Beyond - BizTalk will use Indigo as its foundation
• SQL Server
  • Currently - some support
  • Later - Indigo programming model layered over Service Broker
  • SQL Server vNext - Service Broker uses Indogo transports for WS-* interop
• Windows Sharepoint Services will have a consistent Web Services infrastructure in the future
• VSIP program - 225 Premier and Alliance Partners, and 20,000 affiliates.  Yep, the extensibility ROCKS!
• VS2005 Beta2 will be released in March (“maybe not until March 38th or March 45th...“)

Good presentation.  I wish I could spend more time in the Indigo sessions.  :-(  But I've got to bone up on the new SQL Server 2005 stuff for the ISV Community Days I'll be doing (beginning this Friday).