Hey where's my posts?
Some of you may be wondering why I've had a dry spell here. One reason is below:
This third installment of the Brubaker family came on November 21, 2004.
Also, since the end of November I've been made the Temporary Acting Enterprise Architect for one of my company's Business Units and have been in constant meetings for three weeks. So I haven't missed the news about Oracle CLR and other items and hope to blog a bit while I'm on vacation this week.
Our company's starting a massive effort to move ALL of our US region server software to an outsourced Data Center running Windows Server 2003 on the wintel stack. Also, all the desktops/laptops are moving to Windows XP SP2. Let me assure you that the current installed base is all over the map. The last juicy morsel to this yummy pie is that all the software must go through external configuration management to get into the new environment...and it all has to be done in under two years!
For someone who wants to effect change, (e.g., establish a corporate .NET practice) this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. However since I own the entire Windows stack, the Microsoft relationship and, currently, the corporate enterprise perspective with the business unit with the most wintel software developed over they largest geographical area, I'm getting spread very thin.
It looks likely that during the month of January 2005, I'll be flying all over the country, listening to teams of developers describing what they remember of how over 200 applications are currently designed, so I can help them migrate to the new environment. I doubt I'll be able to blog much...