New to Me: .NET Architecture Center: Service Oriented Architecture

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I learned from TheServerSide.net that MSDN now has a site focused on SOA material:

.NET Architecture Center: Service Oriented Architecture

The goal for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a world wide mesh of collaborating services, which are published and available for invocation on the Service Bus. Adopting SOA is essential to deliver the business agility and IT flexibility promised by Web Services. These benefits are delivered not by just viewing service architecture from a technology perspective and the adoption of Web Service protocols, but require the creation of a Service Oriented Environment that is based on specific key principals.

This will be a handy link for those of you that are interested in the SOA-related tools found in Team Architect Edition ("Whitehorse") of Visual Studio Team System.