Tuesday's Keynote from Paul Flessner had some interesting bits. "Getting Ready for Connected Systems" covered several new developments. Perhaps most importantly to me was the in SQL Server 2005 the database can run the CLR (Common Language Runtime). Theoretically, stored procedures can be written in any language that will run against the CLR- like C#, not TSQL- hooray. Also, SQL Server 2005 will support Native XML, and has infrastructure for RFID (hiss, hiss... 666, and all that.) SQL Server 2005 (and Visual Team Studio 2005 and Biztalk 2006 will launch November 7th.