It was great to finally have Windows Workflow Foundation announced. I personally could'nt wait to tell the story to the rest of the world. Judging from the responses from the attendees at the PDC WWF has created quite a buzz. I think this is just the start. The goal is to get people to start writing business applications in a new way. A process centric way of creation of business applications where the applications can evolve much faster to meet the changing needs of the business. As the business rules change the only thing that needs to change is the process definition. The rest of the application should remain the same. This will reduce deployment costs, downtime for the applications. Customization of these applictions can be very easy.

Personally the session on State Machine workflows that I delivered was a long awaited event. For 3 years (it seems a lot longer) I along with some collegues of mine have been working on the state machine workflow model and it was great to finally share our ideas with the rest of the world. I especially would like to thank Marcelo Uemura for all the hard work that he has put in into making this a reality. Marcelo, I owe it to you buddy !! without you this won't have been possible. It was a long journey to evalgelize the state machine model but finally we did succeed in making this a reality. We still need work to make sure we can make the state machine workflow model super wasy to use but I think we have made a good start