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I really like all the stuff I am hearing about BizTalk 2006R2 v.Next+1 and .Net framework 3.0.   As if the product wasn’t good enough already.   Integration with RFID and better EDI support should put this product clearly in the leader position in the next gartner quadrant.   Its nice that MS has a clear product strategy with brokers unlike IBM that is the most confusing marketing snafu I have ever seen.  The one area where they are still weak is in marketing HIS.   It is such a strong product, but there is no clear message they they can communicate on how to use it.   It almost requires a degree in rocket science.

Now I am off to the HIS Adapters session, or to the managing Windows Mobile in an enterprise environment (which sounds cooler but isn’t erally on my agenda). 

This is vic in our kitchen.

The logistics of literally feeding an army of geeks are amazing. This shows less than half of tables that have enough space to seat 10,000 people. 

Follow up below…

 ComNet has been a staple of TechEd since TechEd ’96 (The beginning of the [MS] internet era).   A means for attendees to communicate with each other and the outside world.   Now the focus is more on the outside communication.   Gone this year is internal email and a a list of attendees.   This makes it much harder to hook up or find people you know at the conference.   It is now literally like trying to find a needle in a haystack.  I wish I knew why they stopped this, did it have something to do with Privacy?.   Also gone are the MS Exchange public folders and discussions – Didn’t Microsoft like what they saw there?.  

There is a new approach this year is distributing the computers all over the place.   This is a really one GREAT new idea for TechEd. One of many clusters of 20 – 50 PC’s all around the convention center.   Here is a shot of one such group.   You can see they get plenty of use.