Purpose of this Blog and Conference

This blog will follow my travails at the the Gartner Integration Summit conference June 8 through 11 in Orlando, Fl.  My goal is to publish as near time as is possible what I am seeing

I choose this conference based upon a few factors:

1. Location and timing - East Coast and end of the school year
2. Experience - I spoke at this summit 18 months ago and really enjoyed the conference
3. Size - size is not too small or big - feels more intimate than say Tech-Ed but a tiny niche conference
4. We are looking into SOA heavily

For tools, I am using blogger.com to actually write the blog, LiveWriter form Microsoft to write the blog in (nice functionality) and will host the files on Wonderfile (still passes the Wachovia proxy test)..