I recently presented at the Auckland Connected Systems User Group . In order to prepare, I created several examples of methods of using the rules engine. The sample solution is here . Included in the sample solution are: Various Vocabulary definitions including using a function in XPath...
At the PDC, Windows Azure was announced as the Microsoft platform for hosting services in the cloud. Similar to Amazon's cloud services , Windows Azure will provide a mechanism for hosting solutions in the cloud. In other words, hosted in Microsoft data centers. Very interesting. Looks like a SOA...
The MSDN Architecture team has a good post on SOA: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb833022.aspx.