Last night Michael Stiefel from Reliable Software presented on Securing Service Oriented Architecture with WSE 2 to the CT .net Developers group. Being in the midst of some major SOA/SO research, this presentation was very timely for me. Micheal's presentation was a great mix of high level concepts, and actual digging through WSE code. He is a very energetic speaker, who was extremely knowledgeable on the topic of SOA.

I really appreciated his vendor neutral/realistic approach to SOA, since much of the material you find on SOA is perched high up on the ivory tower. He had too many good quotes to list them all, but one of my favorite quotes from the evening came when he was discussing the migration path to indigo. "We automate what we did yesterday to create solutions for tomorrow". Classic, and that quote alone has changed some of my thoughts on the service design we are working on right now.

Thank you Michael for presenting to our local group, and if you get a chance to see him present, I would not miss the chance. I know I won't be.