Software Developer Event - Software as a Service

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...