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September 2006 - Posts

WOW! Softricity - Software delivered like electricity!

I remember the first time I saw a virtual machine running. It was many years ago on a early version of VMware. My reaction was WOW! I immediately recognised the problems it could solve and the opportunities virtualisation could provide. Think about virtualisation
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Want to run Windows Vista on a TRS-80?

It could take some time to load ;-)
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SOA and the Reality of Reuse

Their are many purported benefits of taking a service oriented approach to building systems and integrating with existing systems. Some of these include: Abstracted - services abstract us away from the underlying implementation Relevant - functionality
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Ron Jacobs - Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Service Oriented Architectures

Last Wednesday, 30th August we ran a Technical Architecure briefing at the Canberra Microsoft office. Ron Jacobs from the Architecture Strategy Team based in Redmond did an excellent presentation on Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Service-Oriented Architectures.
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Cardspace is a conceptual leap

Last Thursday, my colleague Anna Liu came down to Canberra. It was a beautiful spring day. We spent some time in a workshop with some Federal sector customers discussing Cardspace and potential scenarios of how this might work across different government
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Computerworld article on interop

Following my presentation at Tech Ed, I was contacted by Liz Tay of Computerworld We discussed Microsoft’s investments and ongoing strategy for working across different platforms and systems. Liz wrote an article called .NET 3.0 designed for interoperability
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Heterogeneity Happens!

The week before last I had the opportunity to travel to Auckland to present at Tech Ed NZ on the Microsoft interoperability story. I know it seems like ages ago, but some folks have asked for a copy of the presentation. You can find the slides “Heterogeneity
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Nils van Boxsel – who is he?

He is me! I thought it was worthwhile doing a very quick introduction to give some context to this blog and what I do at Microsoft. I've been at Microsoft for over 3 years now and work with the community of architects involved in enterprise and application
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