With that said, the keynote was boring and talked primarily to large corporate customers not small businesses or one to two person developer operations, started late and made thousands of people wait unnecessarily playing the same looping video. If you are a development house with dozens of programmers or SQL Server 2005 team then maybe you would have found this information valuable but I found it to be a waste of something I value: time. If you had blogged something like this and I read it then I probably would have skipped the keynote. And maybe would have thanked you for saving me time!

The track breakouts covered using Visual Studio (developer track). Are you one of those? If not, then you won’t miss anything with the keynote. There are drawing and ask the expert sections setup.

What exactly would “fulfill your need”? Perhaps if you asked some specific questions, Chris, I might be able to answer your question about what actually happened there and help you out … I didn’t see it all — that would have been impossible for one person — but I did see and learn about some useful things like the stress testing (also explained above).

Care to try again?