Interesting perspective on SOA and BPM here from Joe , but positioning BPEL as BPM is just wrong. BPM encompasses much more than simple service orchestration. It’s good to see the human element addressed here - there is some interesting work going on...

I originally planned to gradually share this draft paper with you all one section at a time, but I'm too impatient for that. Below is the full draft - its in two formats: PDF and DOCX. Have a look and let us know what you think. PDF version ...

Dave Linthicum is blogging about orchestration and gets it mostly right. The blog entry does a decent job of describing orchestration at a high level - if you're unfamiliar with orchestration the blog entry is worth a read. The following, however,...

More from a draft... A Definition for Internet Scale Computing ISC is a distributed , globally accessible fabric of resources for highly scalable and efficiently managed solutions. Distributed, Globally Accessible – Location transparency is...

We have identified many of the capabilities essential for enabling ISC and organized them into twelve distinct capability groups. The ISC Capability Map below represents the top-level view of these twelve capability groups. While the capabilities...

Yesterday's ISC Capability Map included two “registry-like” constructs, one specialized for services (Service Registry) and the other generalized for managing and monitoring resources within the datacenter (CMDB). A Service Registry is designed to store...

Go get it:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

Open a command prompt type the following and hit enter: powercfg.exe -H on Enjoy!