[From Doug Turnure]

David Chappell is going to be delivering a presentation on Indigo at the Microsoft Campus in Alpharetta on April 18th.   Doug says to get there early though!

 http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/southeast/alpharetta.mspx

Understanding Indigo

Indigo is the code name for Microsoft's new foundation for distributed computing and service-oriented applications. This presentation provides an introduction to Indigo, describing what it is, how it works, and how it fits with existing technologies like ASP.NET web services, .NET Remoting, and Enterprise Services. While some familiarity with .NET is assumed, the target audience includes anybody who's interested in how software development will look in the coming service-oriented world.

And here's a short bio:

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. He has been the keynote speaker for conferences in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, and his books on enterprise software technologies have been published in ten languages and used regularly in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and other universities. David's consulting clients have included HP, IBM, Microsoft, Target Corporation, Stanford University, and others.