Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
Thank you to those of you who attended today's architecture council meeting! We had a fantastic discussion on composite application architectures and the capabilities provided by the 2007 Office system.
My slides are available - click here to download.
It's interesting to see these software trends continue. We discussed three key concepts:
1) more agile software - business solutions developed in minutes rather than months
2) the productivity tier - designing software to accomodate ad-hoc and people-centric processing rather than just structured workflow
3) further levels of abstraction - we've abstracted away disk access, operating system functionality, programming frameworks, and now with SharePoint, database table structures and data binding logic. What's next?
Until next time,
Scott