Location: Architecture trackTime: 2007-11-13 11.00Level: Intermediate
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Erik Meijer, Microsoft ,USAErik Meijer leads an small incubation team in Microsoft SQL server division where amongst other things he works on democratizing programming the Cloud and collaborates with the Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft Visual Basic language design teams on data integration in programming languages (LINQ). Prior to joining Microsoft he was an associate professor at UtrechtUniversity and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
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Democratizing The Cloud The web is rocking the world of developers. Our customers love consistency. They want to have the same rich experience, anywhere, any time, on any device. Our sales people love market share. They want no platform that cannot leverage their web services. We ourselves have embraced agile methods. We want to keep our options open as long as possible and create software incrementally by successive refactorings or declarative annotations. This surely sounds like a contradiction, another impossible triangle. The Dutch artist MC Escher once said "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible", which inspired us to try to stretch the .NET framework to cover the Cloud. The ultimate goal is to make it possible for normal programmers to incrementally and seamlessly design, develop, and debug complex distributed applications using their favorite existing and unmodified .NET compiler and deploy these applications anywhere.
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