Microsoft recently released another alpha preview of Visual Studio 2005. I ran across this the other day on somebody's blog, but I didn't take the time to mindlessly propagate it then, so consider it propagated. If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download it now, but fair warning, the image is 2.7G. Yes. Gig. The image is a DVD image, but ISO buster can help if you don't have a suitable burner.
I could have known about it as soon as it happened if only I had have subscribed to their rss feed.
I am very excited to see the latest bits for Indigo. I went to an MS South-Central Architect's Council meeting last night, and we were entertained with the wit and witticism of David Chappell. He did a presentation titled "SOA: What's Next?" The presentation bits didn't really say anything new, i.e.
- Services aren't new, but they're better.
- SOA is the way of the future.
- SOA is a foundation for BPM.
- Biztalk is a great platform for SOA and BP.
- Indigo is the way of the future
He personally made up for the fact that the presentation was a little vanilla. We had a fairly lively discussion around the notion that Indigo was going to "VB" distributed computing by making so easy that people were almost guaranteed to screw it up, ala getting and setting properties on distributed objects.
An interesting note: The vast majority of the companies that Mr. Chappell talks to are not using SOA outside their firewall. A small handful of people in the room, however, said that they were. He commented that that was the largest positive response he has had to the question of inter-enterprise soa.
After the talk, we had dinner and an informal, roundtable discussion that was as much if not more engaging than the presentation, discussing a wide range of problems from SOA to BPM to pushing dirt with tractors. Thanks Raj. It was a good time.
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