One of the sessions I went to last week was a talk by Don Box entitled "Service Orientation and the Windows/.NET Developer". I loved this session, especially as he got all the attendees to ask questions at the start, rearranged them and then spoke for 75 minutes to try and answer them in turn.

He is a fascinating speaker who uses a lot of colourful phrases to ensure you remember what he was saying. One I can't get of of my head is:

"Service Orientation is like teenage sex - Everyone is talking about it, but not many are doing it" - Don Box

Don actually ran out of time before answering all the questions, but he did promise to write it up on his blog. Here are the two he has done so far:

• Services and Processes
• Services and Communications

p.s. Don also pointed the way for next year.... Look out for "Business Agents"....