Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

Today I received an message through LinkedIn from a BizTalk colleague in the field Jonathan Gurevich about Cloud Platforms. I got this message from him concerning my blog post Window Cloud . David Chappell has written a whitepaper 'A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms'. In this paper I saw terms like on-demand platform and platform as a service (PaaS). Last one a new acronym to be added to a already existing long list. I looked at Wikipedia and it is defined there: Platform as a Service (PaaS) is an outgrowth of the Software as a Service application delivery model. The PaaS model makes all of the facilities required to support the end-to-end life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users. It's also known as cloudware. And of course there are people that like to define it themselves and/or explain it very well too like Alex Barnet...

D ay before yesterday I went to a Software Development Event in my hometown Ede. It was organized by the Software Development Network . I went to the following sessions: SOA in high performance, high availability systems Web client software factory: ASP.NET 2.0, Ajax en workflow SOA: Implementation now and later In between there was lunch and I met Paul Gielens an old colleague, buddy I worked with at Interpolis. He was also a speaker for the session An Introduction to Domain-Driven Design. We had a nice chat for over an hour. All sessions I saw, where good ones especially the first one. Speaker Thaddy de Koning, who is an architect, development manager for ALEX a Dutch Online Stockbroker. His talk was about a high performance, high available systems, which one needs if online stock trading is done. He outlined their website and services that are used to provide all sorts of information. His vision of SOA is that services are doing something and it is not about How (like OO), or why...