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Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.
VBA will continue to be supported in next generation office
From several discussions I recently had with Enterprise Architects from various big enterprises over...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/23/2008
Document Standards : MS Open Office XML versus ODF
The Burton Group, a premier IT industry analyst firm, has released a detailed independent research...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/16/2008
Is Java becoming the new Cobol?
According to this article in InfoWorld, this indeed seems to be happening and moreover "there are...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/07/2008
MS simplifies data-centric development in heterogeneous environments
The Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework ,which expands upon the Data Platform pillar of the...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/06/2007
Declarative multi-tier web applications with Volta tech preview
I wanted to let you know that the Microsoft Live Labs is announcing a new technology preview today...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/06/2007
SOA and BPM: you can't have the one without the other?
SOA is about obtaining better enterprise agility and....so is BPM...SOA is about interconnecting...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/30/2007
Silverlight 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions
On 11/29, Microsoft announced continued innovation and momentum around the Web platform including...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/29/2007
Architecture Journal WPF based reader (Beta)
Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this new reader is a locally...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/29/2007
Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition
The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/21/2007
Microsoft Belux Architect Forum December 20
On December 20 we will organize our next Architect Forum for the Belux region. Theme: Software +...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/20/2007
Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
Download Visual Studio 2008 Download the .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2008...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/19/2007
The Architect Journal 13 is out - featuring the Internet Service Bus
Journal 13: Software + Services Foreword The Internet Service Bus Architecture Journal Profile: Ray...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/16/2007
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP
Microsoft is announcing the availability this week of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP)...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/16/2007
MS released CTP for Sync Framework for Offline scenarios
Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/14/2007
Enterprise Service Bus now included in MS Application Platform
I’m pleased to announce the final release of the Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance for...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/09/2007
ISVs are from Mars, Hosters are from Venus
The case for specialized Software as a Service (SaaS) hosting can be easily rationalized by...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/08/2007
Your confidential enterprise data in the cloud?
Another proof point for why the industry is converging to a world of both software and services: the...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/05/2007
The iPhone SDK: A Great S+S Proof Point
Apple announced that they would be offering an SDK next year that lets developer build applications...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/31/2007
Security experts: time to look for greener exploit pastures than Microsoft
In a recent article, InfoWorld reports that industry security experts are facing a new challenge:...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/31/2007
Microsoft SOA/BPM Roadmap leads to Oslo
The vision I am currently attending the our 5th annual SOA & Business Process Conference where...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/31/2007
Master Data Management
The pain that organizations are experiencing around consistent reporting, regulatory compliance,...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/24/2007
Positioning Silverlight, WPF, AJAX.NET, Windows Forms, Expression Suite...
Microsoft puts a lot of attention this days into UX (User Experience) technology, which currently...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/11/2007
RIA battlefield: and the winner will be....?
This very interesting "Joel on Software" (non-MS) article looks back at the lessons of PC history to...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/08/2007
Microsoft and SOA Software Announce Integrated SOA Governance for BizTalk
SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), and a...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/08/2007
The end of the desktop is near?
SaaS is without discussion a very important trend in the ICT industry. A perception that often is...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/21/2007
Microsoft and Sun Expand Strategic Alliance
Sun to Become Windows Server OEM and Companies to Collaborate on Cross-platform Virtualization Key...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/12/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced
Yesterday we released the final version of Silverlight 1.0 on the web. Additionally we also...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/05/2007
OBA Application Patterns
OBA Application patterns describe the breadth of approaches that can be used to extend and integrate...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/03/2007
About human appendixes and ESBs...
Ever wondered what the link might be between ESBs and human appendixes? Wonder no more: Bobby Woolf,...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/31/2007
Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
Are you in need for official information about what will be in SP, what not and when the SP1 beta...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/29/2007
Observations on SaaS and S+S (Software+Services)
John Dvorak (well known columnist at PC Magazine) has written an interesting article that depicts...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/29/2007
Windows server gaining market share
Analyst reports (Gartner/IDC) indicate that although Linux sales are growing by the number of...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/29/2007
Microsoft's effort around interoperability
Most enterprises today are wildly heterogeneous and therefore interoperability is a major concern...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/27/2007
SOA nirvana not yet reached by most enterprises
Still struggling with SOA in your enterprise? Don't worry (too) much, you are in good company!...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/23/2007
Microsoft launches "Tafiti": rich search experience via Silverlight
Today Microsoft has launched Tafiti, an experimental Web site that explores the intersection of two...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/21/2007
VS2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC1 released 27 July 2008
Overall Key Messages The need for organizations to provide richer, more connected solutions to their...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/26/2007
OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 now available on MSDN
The OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 provides information on how developers can build a Client and LOB...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/24/2007
BizTalk extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation first CTP
As we know WF and Biztalk are related and both have their strenghts and weaknesses: Windows Workflow...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/24/2007
OBA Central: community site for customers and partners
OBA Central was launched last week with great success: the site has had 170,000 hits in this first...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/20/2007
Forrester Publishes Application Server Platforms Report, Q3 2007
Summary On July 11th, Forrester released its Application Server Platforms Wave. Forrester defines an...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/18/2007
Software + Services: strategy, business model, case studies
Interesting whitepaper about S+S. It provides a summary of the S+S strategy and explains the impact...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/18/2007
Biztalk enhanced support for SOA, ESB, BPM, WF
Microsoft announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September. In the B2B area it offers...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/17/2007
Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: S+S and OBA applied
Microsoft CRM team announces Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/17/2007
Microsoft's "Cloud OS" takes shape: enter "Software + Services"
Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/13/2007
OBA detailled design: expose BDC entities as web services and consume on Office client
The Business Data Catalog (BDC - a feature of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/12/2007
Microsoft launches OBA partner program
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Denver, CO, Microsoft announced the OBA OnRamp...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/12/2007
Architecture needs to be "actionable"
Interesting (and IMO very true, sadly enough ) quote from the full article (view from CBR): "Recent...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/11/2007
Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will launch together on Feb 27
At the Worldwide Parter Conference 2007 MS announced yesterday that Windows Server 2008, Visual...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/11/2007
ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP now available
As you might know via ADO.NET 3.5 MS is shipping the Entity Data Model (EDM). This model is heavily...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/10/2007