Thank you for your answer. I really should have been more specific.
I have downloaded and installed the FDS on my development machine but when I attempted to run a tutorial I received a 'cannot find server' message from Firefox.
Is there any information out there about how to install FDS, what file to put it under for optimum performance, best practice with FDS, or is it just too new yet?
Make sure you start FDS. You have to do it manually. Under Flex Dataservices 2 choose 'Start Flex Data Integrated Server'. You might want to add this as a service so it startsup automatically with windows. I always forget to start it up!
You'll want to install FDS and ColdFusion as separate web applications. If you choose to use separate servers, be sure that you start each of those servers.