I'm looking forward to speaking at Microsoft's 5th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference on April 25th and 26th, 2007 - and of course hoping to meet up with the many interesting people I spoke with last year. This year we are a platinum sponsor, so we have an official speaking slot: Details below The Financial Services industry is data intensive, and many organizations have a diverse, heterogeneous mix of large data stores. Financial Services IT infrastructures are diverse since firms are early adopters and they have conglomerate technologies based on M&A activity. It