Links for March 26th through March 27th

Brad Abrams : What is .NET RIA Services?
"Our thinking on the RIA Services work really grow out of the LINQ project a few years ago. LINQ integrates query semantics into the languages (C#, VB, etc) providing a common abstraction for working with data; whether that data is in memory CLR objects, XML, relational data, or anything else. With RIA Services we are extending this pattern by offering a prescriptive model for exposing your domain logic over LINQ."
A guide to Silverlight 3 new features
Proving once again that blog posts are you best source of info for announcements, not so much traditional PR.
Differences Between Silverlight Out of Browser Experience and AIR | Ryan Stewart – Rich Internet Application Mountaineer
Is the Pretense of the Open Web Gone?
Microsoft criticizes drafting of secret 'Cloud Manifesto'
The Sun Cloud
"How do you make money in clouds? I’m not convinced that there are big fat margins in operating global-scale infrastructure, competing with Amazon AWS and its peers. I am 100% convinced that if there were a general-purpose platform for running behind the firewall to automate scaling and deployment and take IT out of many loops, there are a whole lot of enterprises who’d love that kind of elasticity in their infrastructure."
Dreaming on a cloud – migration as an obstacle to cloud computing: an IT Skeptic Special Report | The IT Skeptic
Cloud computing is just an excuse to sell change.
Things I wrote down during OSBC

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