Epilog: 15th Architect Forum, Vienna, Austria
Yesterday the 15th Architects Forum took place at the Microsoft Office in Vienna. Mario and I discussed the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Communication (WF) and Office 2007 and how they integrate into each other. Although the intended audience are Architects, we showed a lot of coding. I personally think that Architects should have an understanding of the possibilities new technologies offer to developers. They should know about the efforts in implementation to support the Project Managers with scheduling and resource decisions. Implementation details of upcoming technologies espacially related to integration issues (i.e. WCF and WF) can have major influence on architectural decisions, whereas the knowledge of some details of established (i.e. well known and often deployed technologies) is up to developers.
