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16.02.05
Basta 2005! Resume
I haven’t had much time listening to sessions today. Instead I talked to many visitors and speakers of the conference. The gist of what I heard is that .NET is gaining ground in the IT landscape of Germany. However only few people are experimenting with the .NET Framework 2.0 or Visual Studio .NET 2005. Generics and the other new language features are foreign to many developers and seemingly hard to grasp.
Seems like .NET still has a long way to go, at least in Germany.
Nevertheless Basta! 2005 was a success. The speakers were obviously more competent and eloquent than last year. SOA was a topic in many sessions which is a good thing. It is no proof that developers have adopted the concepts, yet. But they are at least willing to listen to new architectures and trying to comprehend all this fancy stuff.
In my opinion Microsoft is in its infancy concerning enterprise development. Although the .NET Framework, the web service support including WSE, and the plans (Indigo) for the future are solid implementations and concepts, Microsoft still has to proof that they are able to provide business solutions or technologies to implement enterprise business solutions. Simply put they have to catch up and time may be running short …
Posted by Hartmut Wilms at 16.02.05 20:20