Joe's column is one I have been following religiously for a while - a must read if you at are interested in SOA. His write-up on how we think about SOA really nails the core of our philosophy. Just do it!

well, I am out today with a virus and am coughing my way to the doctor - but that is a different story. We talk about 'discovery' in SOA, cough, cough. I have been working with customers on SOA for over 7 years now - and I must confess that I haven...

Following up on my post from last year http://blogs.msdn.com/jdevados/archive/2006/08/02/687269.aspx - I think there is a similar distiction that we can make for BPM. Alex Moulas nails it in his column http://www.bpm.com/FeatureRO.asp - "A large, progressive...

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide - a must read.

I was in a discussion with a customer this morning - and the topic of UML came up. I think Martin Fowler nailed it with this masterful post from a couple of years back.

http://www.bpm.com/BriefingRO.asp?BriefingId=31 is an excellent commentary on the state of the BPM space.

recently, I was in an email thread where we had someone ask about dependency on XYZ. I think this is an area, where much like the conservation of energy, you can shift the dependencies around - language, tool, framework, operating system, vendor, systems...

Harry has been asking me when I am going to start blogging again - thanks for pushing me Harry. He talks about my big SOA, little SOA post from a long time back - it seems that the nomenclature has taken on a life of its own now - I saw Joe McKendrick...

About 18 months we at Microsoft first started presenting our ideas on bridging SOA and Web 2.0 - way ahead of the industry analysts, and other influentials. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1918120,00.asp is an article that Darryl Taft at eWeek wrote...

Multi-tenancy may be among the best examples of architecture-led marketing in the last few years. Multi-tenancy is a means to an end – re-architecting for multi-tenancy is non-trivial, and the resulting isolation is still incomplete - perhaps the...