Great article.  We are currently using a home grown Log Shipping process to copy logs from one location to 4 other locations with compression/decompression.  We also use the standby databases for user reporting and for programmers to research data problems.   The problem with reporting, as the article points out, is it kicks users out during log restoration; thus, we increase the restoration interval to every 2 hours.  What we are looking for is a combination of Log Shipping for warm standby and Replication for reporting.  So far, all I read is this is possible but tricky to setup.  I would love to see a detailed step by step instruction for this solution.  I am sure other people have similar needs.