Technology Mashup

I sat through a number of sessions at a tech conference on Thursday, which I found very useful in terms of understanding the technical landscape of one of our key partner’s solution portfolio. After presentation two or three maybe (and I cant rule out the effects of caffeine crash – as there weren’t nearly enough coffee breaks) I began to get rather irritated with the whole ‘business v’s IT debate’.

If you are following developments in the forthcoming Oslo project from Microsoft, then you will want to check out these two videos from endpoint.tv. Oslo will be released later this year affecting products such as .NET Framework, Visual Studio, BizTalk Server and others. It will provide some neat enhancements to WF / WCF and will give Microsoft a stronger offering in the SOA space.

The first video is a high level introduction and discussion with David Chappell. The second video deals with preparation for Oslo and discussion with Jon Flanders.

Two interesting Redbooks out this week dealing with technology transition to WebSphere Process Server.

1. WebSphere MQ Workflow transition to WebSphere Process Server
2. Migrating WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation to WebSphere Process
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