Indigo: Web services panacea or not?

Eric Rudder, a top Microsoft executive who keynoted at VS Live this morning, claims Microsoft's forthcoming Indigo software won't be a panacea for all IT shops creating Web services for Windows (specifically, those using .Net Remoting might want to avoid Indigo for now). But at least one top  developer/trainer (Magenic Technologies principal technology evangelist Rockford Lhotka, a Microsoft MVP) says otherwise. Either way, IT shops still have to consider some interesting tradeoffs.

It used to be that corporations were merely at risk if they put buggy software systems up on the Web. Now, in the age of Web services, they also have to consider the increasing risks of creating mis-architected software systems, a risk partially heightened by the increasingly crufty Microsoft product line.