Microsoft at JavaOne 2007 - Day 2 - General

About: This blog post is part of the “Microsoft at JavaOne 2007” series; it provides general commentary about Day 2

Greetings,

Day 2 at JavaOne is over. Kevin and I conducted a session on “Implementing interoperable SOA in the enterprise” which was attended by 800+ people, one of the largest JavaOne breakout sessions. We talked about the need for interoperability, the challenges in realizing it, the danger of a magic bullet answer and the solution choices and strategies especially in implementing .NET 3.0 and JEE5. We also gave out copies of Windows Vista to some of the attendees who asked questions.

I also attended a number of sessions; again the most interesting ones were around Mobile and Java Realtime. There didn’t seem to be much excitement about the web offerings. I was also surprised by how many Java Developers came to collect the Visual Studio IDE express edition, we actually ran out of the CDs on Day 1! It was surprising as in past year many developers would not accept the IDE CD. About 40-50% of the thousands of people who visited our booth admitted that they are now either programming in both Java and .NET or are learning to interact with .NET as their organization has bought or built systems in .NET

The maximum number of questions we got at our booth today were again around Silverlight, it was interesting to see the level of interest and excitement around SilverLight amongst Java developers. We also got a lot of ‘Wows!” on showcasing the British Library’s Turning Pages application (Version 2, available from their Web Site” which allows consumer to view some of the most precious books at the library including DaVanci and Mozart original notebooks. More later

Best regards,

Mohammad