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