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Thursday, April 19, 2007

MWD FM SOA interview: Microsoft

Here's the fourth in our series of interviews with vendors offering SOA related products and services. This time it's the turn of Kris Horrocks, who's a Technical Product Manager in the Connected Systems Division of Microsoft. (The Connected Systems Division was formed in 2005 as part of the Server and Tools business, and it brings together work on .NET, BizTalk, CardSpace and other related things).

As usual we talk through our standard four questions. In the resulting conversation we explore:
  • how Microsoft deals with customers' questions about scalability and interoperability

  • the importance of "high fidelity handoffs" between IT practices in quality service delivery

  • how the SOA offering fits with Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and support for "design for operations", and what this means for managing service lifecycles.
The podcast episode lasts 34'41". You can download the audio here or you can subscribe to the feed.

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