Microsoft at JavaOne 2007 - Day 0

About: This is the first in a series of posts about Microsoft’s participation at JavaOne 2007, San Francisco May 08-11

Greetings,

I have landed and am in my hotel room in San Francisco, it must be San Francisco... where else would a small bottle of water in the room would have an $8.00 label on it? It is 85 degrees Fahrenheit and the people of San Francisco are complaining about ‘the unusually warm weather’, I am not sure if it’s really warmer than last year or the after effects of watching the ‘inconvenient truth’ but global warming or not... flying in from Toronto where it was quiet chilly yesterday night, I absolutely love the weather! Another interesting change from last year seems to be the absence of any homeless people around the downtown area, in the last 7 years of my travels to this great city, I have always been struck with the disparity and divide that is so obvious. According to the taxicab driver the police is cracking down on the people living on the street so I assume that they have gone to adjoining areas. BTW the taxicab had a really big read heart and flowery decoration, on my inquiry the driver mentioned that he has themed his vehicle to be the ‘romantic cab’ and the decorations are a big hit with the regulars.... only in San Francisco!

Microsoft has a booth and is conducting multiple sessions at the conference. I am delighted to see that while Sun and Microsoft compete in some areas they are also mature enough to come together for customers that would like to see better interoperability between Java and .NET. The two big focuses for the Microsoft booth and sessions would be ”interoperability “ and ‘next generation web”. With the announcement about the cross-platform (and pretty amazing!) SilverLight and some really interesting work in the area of AJAX from Microsoft, I am keen to hear the updates on Java side of things at this conference.

My session has been scheduled for May 09, 2007 at 2:50 p.m. (about the time when the lunch coma starts to strike the audienceJ).  If you are at JavaOne, do drop by and say hello at the session or the Microsoft booth, the session information is as follows:

Session ID: TS-8882
Session Title: Implementing Interoperable SOA in Your Enterprise
Track: Services and Integration
Room: Esplanade 304/306
Date: 09-MAY-07
Start Time: 14:50

Also there is a great session on AJAX by my friend and colleague Peter Laudati, do a search on Microsoft in the ‘company’ field of the online JavaOne schedule builder to see all Microsoft sessions. I plan to leave the hotel now, check-in for JavaOne and then attend the coolest party in town ‘Canadians at JavaOne (which includes the most famous Canadian in the Java world, Mr. James Gosling) I also plan to drop-in at a reunion organized by my buddies from Sun. I will report live from the keynote tomorrow and plan to provide regular updates about the conference, announcement, sessions, atmosphere and other fun stuff, so stay tuned!

Best regards,

Mohammad