Proprietary ETL tools have traditionally been expensive, with a typical license costing $25,000 to $500,000. Sometimes, they overlap within a single enterprise.
At the meeting, Silverlight 3 new capabilities and release dates were discussed, as well as the latest version of Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 was demonstrated.
Connectors do not matter...The reality is, just the connectors and APIs are not enough to provide data synchronization between the two corporate systems.