TechEd: Indigo session - part 2
Ari just gave a number of demos using Media Center and interesting TV viewing/shopping scenarios. One demo showed an application that alerts his PocketPC phone when his son sits down to watch Jerry Springer. He can then send a message back saying "you're busted" and change it to SpongeBob Square Pants. Never thought I'd see both Jerry and SpongeBob in the same demo (or any demo!) He went on to show a number of other shopping type demos using Amazon.com Web services. The reset of the demos were done in hurried fashion and not with the same impact. I'm sure it's hard to come up with a set of demos for Indigo that keep you on the edge of your seat - Ari has done a good job but it might be useful to either cut some of the last demos or slow down and let them sink in. Thanks does go to Ari for filling in for Charles who is out with a broken hip (likely story ha!)
Some dates of interest for Indigo:
2005:
Biztalk - adaptor for WSE 2.0
SQL - dedicated SQL to SQL channel
2006:
BizTalk - adaptor for Indigo
SQL - indigo transport channel
Beyond:
Both natively use make use of Indigo - this will need some elaboration in a future post.
RTM: Indigo ships in 2006 along with Longhorn.
