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Sorry ,
But no one has really thought about the consequences of moving Apps from local Servers to these new Cloud Locations.
Firstly most Govermental and Local Authority Unit have to abide by strict auditing controls... one of which is that :How much control over the Application do you have:.....With a Cloud .... none.
I think MS must have its brains up in the "CLOUDS" 
Its not going to be much of a starter  .......Not from some of the largest Govermental/Authority sectors.
ARH
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Yeah I entirely agree, there are very large sectors of the market which could never or would never allow their data to go anywhere.
Frankly I just don't see this as anything more than Microsoft reacting to others and trying to shove it down developers throats and brainwash them to go out and shove it down other developer's throats, they think we should all be excited about this without thinking through the consequences.
Sure there is a market for it but it isn't much of an overlap with Microsoft's traditional Windows market; the bread and butter market for Windows is not the sort of companies that are going to put all their data online. In fact I find it hard to think of any business sector that would accept this, at least no one with even the slightest bit of confidential information or anyone who has a business that relies entirely on their computers to be up and running. When it's all in house they have complete control over what goes on, once it's out of their hands they have to rely on others for something that they really just don't need to at all.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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anyone think of big brother ...?
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I just don't see where you get this part where anything is being shoved down developers' throats. If that is the case, why are they investing so much time and money on Win7, Server, Midori, etc.? Azure is just an option to use or not use as it suits you.
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You're right, that was excessive. What angers me is that they are wasting resources on a venture that goes against their core customer demographic.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Have you seen the warehouse full of thousands servers that they have invested in in the States...? They are already investing millions into these Server Warehouses ...Does that not constitute 'Shoving it down Developers throats'????
To me it looks as if they are going back to the seventies by investing money into projects that are not likely to take off in they way that they seem to foretell.....Microsoft ..... Watch Out you may be Wasting your money again......
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DRew Hinge wrote: Have you seen the warehouse full of thousands servers that they have invested in in the States...? They are already investing millions into these Server Warehouses ...Does that not constitute 'Shoving it down Developers throats'????
No, it doesn't.
It does give me another option for deploying my application.
If they had spent 75% of the PDC hours on Azure, rather than the 15% they actually did, you might have cause for alarm.
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Have you seen the Server warehouses in the states...??? They have thousands of servers lined up waiting for the supposed migration to 'Clouds'
This is a pure waste of money which as an Accountant I feel is 'unjustified Expenditure'... its taking MS back to the seventies when they were investing heavily in all sorts of Projects ..All of which almost led to the downfall and subsequent downsizing of MS.
Microsoft.. Watch Where You Are Going.........
modified on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 4:05 AM
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Have you heard that LINQ to SQL might be going away, to be replaced by "Entity Framework". Is "Cloud" going to stay?
TOMZ_KV
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DRew Hinge wrote: But no one has really thought about the consequences of moving Apps from local Servers to these new Cloud Locations.
There's no law saying a cloud can't be on your Intranet/LAN/WAN.
I stand corrected. After reading the marketing rhetoric for Azure, the way MS is implementing it is the same as the way Amazon did. Not sure if it'll be enforced, but they speak of MS data centers right up front. Well, IMO, if that's required to use their data centers then a good concept will be heading in the wrong direction IMO.
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Azure is in pre-beta apparently and the only information any of us have seen on it (those of us who have to work for a living and can't go flitting off to PDC or other insanely wasteful marketing oriented brainwashing sessions / shmoozefests of their ilk), is a lot of marketing hype and marketing speak. It means *nothing* to me right now at all and to many others I'm sure.
Almost without exception in the modern history of technology the advance marketing makes me envision ideas that turn out to be way better than the actual product.
You might as well have asked us if we're planning on targetting the o.s. built into flying cars and personal jet packs. 
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Hail to that
John C wrote: You might as well have asked us if we're planning on targetting the o.s. built into flying cars and personal jet packs.
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John C wrote: You might as well have asked us if we're planning on targetting the o.s. built into flying cars and personal jet packs.
Now you've spoiled the surprise for the next week poll question! 
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John C wrote: You might as well have asked us if we're planning on targetting the o.s. built into flying cars and personal jet packs.
Are you not? I've got a preliminary advance planning meeting this morning on initial considerations for integration with jetpack.net. Management are keen to ensure that our salesmen of the future can access their data direct from their personal jet packs while on site with clients.
Simon
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John C wrote: You might as well have asked us if we're planning on targetting the o.s. built into flying cars and personal jet packs.
Hopefully I can still use Visual Basic
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Well, I'm sorry you couldn't be there, but PDC is hardly a marketing session. It's hours and hours spent learning the technologies from the people who actually write the Windows code.
In any event, if "the only information any of us have seen is a lot of marketing hype", then you haven't looked. Azure is online, and everything you need to develop for it is available at no cost, right now:
- All of the Azure SDKs.
- An Azure "training kit".
- Videos of all the PDC sessions including, by my count, 29 technical discussions of Azure/Live Services.
IOW, it's all there. If you want to start writing an Azure-based app, you can do it this morning.
modified on Monday, November 3, 2008 6:59 AM
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cjdunford wrote: Well, I'm sorry you couldn't be there, but PDC is hardly a marketing session. It's hours and hours spent learning the technologies from the people who actually write the Windows code
Of course it is, but that's irrelevant, how exactly are you fooling yourself into thinking the primary purpose is not marketing?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: how exactly are you fooling yourself into thinking the primary purpose is not marketing?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "marketing".
If it means, "helping developers understand how to use new Windows technologies so they can write programs that people will want to use so that they will need Windows", then I guess it's a marketing session. And they are very upfront about that.
But when I think of marketing sessions, I think of the three hours you have to spend listening to the condo developer's BS to get the free weekend in Orlando. It ain't like that.
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You (or your company) are paying good money, a *lot* of money when you factor in lost productivity, travel, lodging etc to go and be marketed to. If they want to tell us about a new product and get us interested in using it then tell everyone by posting it online and getting sites like this one involved rather than the continued arrogance of expecting people to pay to be marketed to.
I guess my perspective as a company owner is a little different than the perspective of an employee to whom none of this matters and they just want to go get their geek on at someone else's expense no matter the relevance or actual usefulness in real life.
Also I was never one of those guys who thought there was anything at all cool about buying clothes with corporate brands on them either so I guess I'm just weird.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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I guess we'll have to just agree to see it differently.
We find the PDCs to be extremely helpful from a technological point of view. We learn new stuff. We make contacts with MS people to whom we can go directly with our questions and not have to rely exclusively on newsgroups, MS support, and such. We find out what other people are doing and get good ideas. In sum, we're better at our jobs after the PDCs than we were before.
We just don't see it as marketing beyond the very limited sense that I mentioned.
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OK, that's your opinion, and you're certainly welcome to have it.
You do seem, however, to be under the impression that it was all about Azure, and that is emphatically not the case. Of the 200+ sessions, only 30 or so were Azure-related--about 15%. There were a lot of Win7 sessions, as well as numerous sessions on parallel/multicore computing, .Net and WPF, ASP.Net, Visual Studio, and on and on and on.
As for Azure, it's just another option. Nobody's being forced into it. You use it for products where it makes sense. For products where it doesn't make sense, you use desktop Windows or Server.
And I can assure you that I haven't been brainwashed. It's just that I've been there, and I know how valuable it is.
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No you are not alone in this Label oriented world.....
I am one that is of your ilk...... I dont like to spend (waste) money unecessarily.... especially if you have shareholders to look after...
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John C wrote: those of us who have to work for a living and can't go flitting off to PDC or other insanely wasteful marketing oriented brainwashing sessions / shmoozefests of their ilk
It's a whole different story when your company foots the bill. 
John C wrote: It means *nothing* to me right now at all and to many others I'm sure.
As usual, the MS marketing around Azure seems to indicate that they invented "the cloud" and Azure is a revolutionary service. This is far from the truth. From what I can tell, "the cloud" is just another name for consolidated infrastructure. Basically, one company manages a whole bunch of servers, so that small-to-medium sized businesses don't have to. You pay that company for the service of keeping those servers alive and kicking. I think this can be a very good thing for small companies that don't have enough money/employees to buy and maintain the expensive IT infrastructure required for their Web sites to go live.
There are, and have been, companies that provide exactly this service for years. There's nothing new under the sun.
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Josh Smith wrote: It's a whole different story when your company foots the bill.
Well that would still be me and in any case the more pdc's your company pays for, the more programmers they will have to get rid of when the economy turns south.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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