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Housekeeping Notes Name Badges: For security purposes please wear name badge at all times Garage parking: If you drove to campus, please complete a “garage pass” found at registration desk Lunch – McKinley Room Evaluation: Please complete the evaluation form found on your seats and return at registration desk Ask The Experts Reception – McKinley Room Agenda Day One Tuesday, April 19th 2005 Agenda Day TwoWednesday, April 20th 2005 Keynote Address Joe Long Product Unit Manager XML Enterprise Services Microsoft Overview Your historic day needs an historic context Before COM COM and OLE .NET Service-orientation and Indigo 1975 Vietnam war ends Microsoft begins The Mythical Man-Month published 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader Windows 1.0 is released 1985: Lessons of the Era Software standards can drive hardware compatibility MSX didn’t much but Windows did! Securing industry support is tough Manufacturers in Japan supported MSX, none did in U.S. 1987 Iran-Contra Scandal 1987: Lessons of the Era The fragility of tight coupling DDE clients had to know the server’s physical location Client programmers had to know the server’s macro language 1990 USSR dissolves 1994 - 1996 OLE Industry Solutions 1996 OPC Benefits … Hardware manufacturers Software vendors Systems integrators Customers 1990 – 1996: Lessons of the Era Windows are islands in Internet ocean Commerce on every desktop Pressure on every server 1997 U.S. Space Shuttle docks at Russian station 1997 – 2000: Lessons of the Era Reference counting is hard Re-use via the registry is fragile Different platforms at different tiers Today’s n-tier is tomorrow’s silo Tight-coupling = no flexibility 2002 Post 9/11 2002 OPC benefits from .NET 2002 Code re-use in the era of .NET 2002: Lessons of the Era Too many overlapping tools on all platforms Bulk of IT budgets spent on re-use Premium on re-use across platforms Tight-coupling persists, flexibi