PDC 09 So Far
Sitting most of the time near to Sasha Goldshtein leave no room for a another good post related to the PDC lectures content. Beside the keynotes most of the lectures that I attend are the FT – Future technology. The main message of the conference is that we are at the beginning stage of evolving from SOA based applications to Cloud based. Be it a global or private Cloud. Combine the server side features of the Cloud such as Hosting, Storage, SQL Server on the Cloud, Virtualization and Management with the new abilities of Silverlight and ASP.NET 4.0, you can see were Microsoft is heading. The ability to run C++ code, use T-SQL as well as hosting PHP and Java on the Cloud means that Microsoft provides the foundation to easily porting applications to the Cloud. As opposed to previous PDC events that used to provide a taste about the technology that will come in three years, this PDC deals with current and next year technology. In one hand it’s a pity, but in the other hand we can start to develop our next applications using the new tools.
Beside the content you can see that in this PDC Microsoft decided not to waste money on less important stuff such as food and the traditional party. Instead I am writing this post on a new multi-touch based Acer laptop that was given to each of the attendees. Those who know me, knows that I have two laptops, think about the security check at the airport – I need to use three trays now!