Distributed Why or Indigo How?
There is an interesting post about the current Longhorn Developer Preview European Tour. Clemens is explaining what his experience was and is about delivering the Indigo message. Tiago is complaining his decision. Of course you can assume that people who are interested in Indigo should have a good fundamental knowledge in designing distributed applications. These people would love to see how Indigo is addressing a lot of problems they have today. But two things you have still to consider in that case:
- As this are in most places one day events with one track you automatically stay in the session. Even if you never designed distributed systems. I guess this is still pretty much of the audience as there is more to see like Avalon and WinFS for example.
- The bits are still in development and especially the Indigo team mentioned that the next milestone will have a bunch of changes. So to demo something is not without risk as what you show could be completely changed in a few weeks.
Considering this points, I totally agree with Clemens in explaining firstly the why and then go into the how.
