Microsoft's FAST and sharepoint integration (SharePoint 2010)

Stephen Arnold has written up an excellent analysis of the information that was given about the coming release of "Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint".

Third, there is a reminder to me that SharePoint is a work in progress. I think someone told me that it is the next operating system from Microsoft. The Fast component will be called Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Now the story gets interesting. Here’s what’s coming:

He then sums up some aspects of the features:

• A content processing pipeline.
  
• Metadata extraction.
  
• Structured data search.
• Visual search.
  
• Advanced linguistics.
  
• Best bets.
  
• Development platform.
  
• Customization.
  

Microsoft has a lot of work to do while their were no live demo's or example that could show these features in action.