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From The What Were They Thinking Department

I got an email yesterday from the folks at Fawcette Conferneces for an Enterprise Architect Summit.  It caught my eye, and I decided to give it a look, until I saw that it was to be held in Palm Springs, CA from October 12-14.  Not all that bright considering the Microsoft PDC will be held in LA two weeks later.  Can’t see many MS’ers going to this one.  They are having a hard enough time getting folks to conferences these days, no less going up against the PDC.

Don XML

4 Comments

  • I pick PDC......Even though fawcettes are fun.

  • This conference is a kitchen sink affair. When will Jim learn that he can't pull these off? Not to mention when there's such huge competition? Or did anyone miss that Alan Meckler is doing a conference in November (along with Comdex)?

  • this is totally different than the past events, where it was a bit of a mish-mash. If you look at what enterprise architects are doing, it *is* a bit of a kitchen sink affair, in terms of what you have to know. But tying them together, and figuring out how to make money at it? That is the tough question facing the folks tying together the developer, IT, and business teams, and what this event is going to tackle. The audiences for PDC and EAS are dramatically different (practicioners vs. architects), so I suspect the two will be more complimentary vs. competitive. That's what we were thinking...


    Matt Carter/FTP

  • To Jeff, I believe the next PDC will be pretty festive.





    As PDC's go, this one should have a lot of genuine new technology. This means lots of people who've been working on it will get their first chance to show it to people, which always results in a festive mood.





    To Matt, I take exception to the distinction between architects and practitioners. As platforms and programming environments move up the abstraction food chain, it's becoming more common for the lines to blur. I think that may be why MS is getting better at addressing architectural issues as addition to "here's an amazingly cool new API" than in past years.





    DB


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