Events last week

mattjgilbert — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:29:53 GMT

Last week I attended a couple of events. On Wednesday Microsoft held a SOA/BPM day at the offices in Reading and a number of speakers talked about SOA, the Microsoft platform now and in the future and how to deliver the SOA promise using those technologies. It was a mix of stuff I already new or had seen before and some other perspectives. Darren Jefford gave a good demo on the new wave of cloud technologies. One interesting comment relayed something Don Box had said – that we are only 15 years into a 30 year journey on where Microsoft would like to be in terms of modelling and tools.

The jump to the cloud platform is the next step but the current suite of technologies we have seen are very immature at this point, something which was repeatedly stressed and evident at the post-PDC day that Developmentor ran on Friday. Rich Blewitt and Dominick Baier ran four sessions throughout the day discussing and demonstrating Azure, WF 4.0, M, Geneva and .Net Service/SQL Data Services. It was a very good day so thanks to them and Developmentor for running the event. Rich has posted the day’s slides here.

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Events last week