The article was good and it's clear SSIS addresses some glaring deficiencies in DTS, but the title "A New ETL paradigm" is a terrible misnomer.  It's a new SQL Server ETL tool,...

Well, I'm a bit late to the party here, but have to say "portable DTS packages" is pretty much of an oxymoron. 

I'm a former OO developer where we used DTS...

What properties are changing in the SQL Statement?  If it's filtering, like a date range on a package that's run on a time schedule, like a weekly or month-end process,...