Eric Troup's Blog

Building OSS with Microsoft System Center

Eric G. Troup — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:23:07 GMT

The TM Forum’s Management World Americas event is next week, 7-10 December 2009, in Orlando, Florida. One of the particularly interesting topics Microsoft will begin discussing at Management World will be next generation, customer focused OSS that...(read more)

Eclipse Gets Enhanced Interoperability with Microsoft Platforms

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:30:13 GMT

In collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and the broader open source community, Microsoft has improved interoperability between the Eclipse and Windows platforms. As a sponsor at the annual European Eclipse summit in Ludwigsburg, Microsoft announced...(read more)

Microsoft Professional Developer Conference

Eric G. Troup — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:55:37 GMT

Microsoft PDC 2009 is coming up soon. November 17 – 19, 2009 Workshops November 16 Los Angeles Convention Center Here is the link: http://microsoftpdc.com/...(read more)

Microsoft SolutionFrameworks.NET at the TM Forum

Eric G. Troup — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:49:15 GMT

The TMF has been working on a new initiative called the Solution Frameworks Blueprint . The effort seeks to bring together the work of two distinct work streams. NGOSS Solution Frameworks used to help architect next generation BSS and OSS. Service Delivery...(read more)

Service Delivery Platforms vs Service Delivery Frameworks

Eric G. Troup — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:32:01 GMT

What is a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)? What is a Service Delivery Framework (SDF)? The question came up again at the TM Forum’s Team Action Week held in Baltimore, MD this past week during a joint session with several representatives from...(read more)

Momentum Shift – Microsoft Increasingly Credible for BSS/OSS

Eric G. Troup — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:23:47 GMT

If you look at just the numbers, Microsoft is used by only a very small percentage of BSS and OSS systems. In the true telecom BSS/OSS space, Microsoft can claim less than 10% market share today. The other 90% is split between legacy Mainframe,...(read more)

Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:22:07 GMT

Microsoft continues to enhance the interoperability of the Azure Service Platform with the announcement of the availability of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure . Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! The goal of the SDK...(read more)

The New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit Announced

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT

The New York Times has posted a blog entry about the availability of the New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit with links to the toolkit and background information over at the New York Times Open blog . You can find the toolkit here created by my teammate...(read more)

Microsoft a Service Provider FINALIST - TM Forum Best Practices Excellence Awards

Eric G. Troup — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:15:01 GMT

Microsoft Online Services was selected as a Finalist by the TM Forum for this year’s Best Practices Excellence Awards 2009. The awards were recognized at the TM Forum’s Management World event held in Nice, France from 6-9 May 2009. Traditionally...(read more)

Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour…

Eric G. Troup — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:43:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriquez has announced on his Blog a new series of Windows Presentation foundations trainings for Apr/May/Jun optimized for building business applications. The training should be well suited to those wishing to incorporate the latest Microsoft...(read more)

Nomination for TM Forum 2009 Service Provider Excellence Awards

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:32:29 GMT

A nomination for TM Forum 2009 Excellence Awards has been accepted under the Service provider category. The winner of the award will be announced at Management World in Nice on May 6th. Microsoft used TM Forum standards such as the NGOSS reference...(read more)

TM Forum NGOSS Standards Fast Track BSS/OSS For Microsoft Online Services

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:38:00 GMT

The TM Forum recently posted a Microsoft case study on how a BSS/OSS stack was rapidly designed and implemented to support www.Microsoft.com/online . Business Problem: To provide the speed and convenience of cloud computing services, Microsoft recently...(read more)

MSDN, Visual Studio, TFS Web Casts

Eric G. Troup — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:22:00 GMT

Here is information on an upcoming Web Cast Series covering MSDN licenses, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Date and Time Title and Link Description 02/24/09 10:00 AM PST Webcast Series: How to license and manage MSDN Subscriptions Meeting ID...(read more)

Using my new HTC Fuze

Eric G. Troup — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:26:00 GMT

It's a new year and it was time to think about replacing my HTC Tilt with something new. I had upgraded the Tilt to Windows Mobile 6.1 and it was working fine. However, the HTC Touch and Touch Pro had really caught my eye. I decided to move over to the...(read more)

Just Back from TM Forum's Management World Americas

Eric G. Troup — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:37:00 GMT

Just came back from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas event in Orlando, Florida held 16-20 November 2008. The theme was Create, Deliver and Monetize Digital Services . For the past several years, we have talked about how Microsoft technology can...(read more)