Successful side meeting today

Today I conducted what I would characterize as a very successful side meeting at the Peobody hotel.  The side meeting was focused on secure collaboration, and ran about 2 hours. We got about 60% of the RSVPs that attended which seems to be about par for the course.

Generally speaking, the things we were thinking about are also on our customer's radar screen.  We did gather some interesting new information that was a bit different than what we suspected.  For instance, some of the interesting findings were that the customers seemed much more worried about strong authentication than I expected them to be (now that I think of it this isn't actually that surprising).  In addition, they also seemed more open to CardSpace than I expected.