In the services world, there has been a lot of attention on discovery: the need to discover the existence of services through a directory or tool. UDDI attempted to solve this problem with limited success, but has gained "checkbox status" among organizations...

It recently dawned on me with all the discussion around "SOA is dead" and the desire of analysts to discover the next thing, that IT mindshare is really very similar to a reality show. I'm not just talking about the life imitating art aspect, I mean that...

Last night we released the February 09 CTP of the Managed Services Engine (MSE) on CodePlex. With this release, we are crossing over into the modeling paradigm with a new WPF-based UI that allows you to not only define your service components, but visualize...