European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3

Day 3 starts – the real warriors are up and at it ready for
another day. Some are still in bed after the night
before!
Expert Panel Session – “Will Public Offerings or Private cloud
Solutions influence the Adoption of SharePoint as a Web and
Application Platform”. Some selected quotes:

•Infrastructure no longer matters
•Developers need to fond a new way to have their code built and
then trusted by tightly controlled clouds
•In the cloud every company can have enterprise grade
infrastructure available to them
•Office 365 really brings cloud to the masses at a very affordable
price
•Microsoft has switched focus – the new software is first built to
be cloud ready and then on-premise ready – quite the switch
•The cloud has made us develop a better product than our roadmap
had intended – using Windows Azure for extra services that would
not have been possible
•Someday we will all be in a cloud – either a public or a private
cloud
•Lots more great points (but I was catching up on work email – and
half listening!)
Next Session – “How to build a great session with SharePoint –
in 45 minutes ” – David Colombo from Microsoft. Heron Island
(Great Barrier Reef) is the target website – a place I’d love to go
visit having seen the website. Pretty impressive Level 300
(showing the code) demo.

Very interesting to see delegates at the conference on laptops
on the European SharePoint Community site and downloading session
presentations. A long way from the first conferences with
large binders with all the materials.

More great sessions:

•Automated Approvals in SharePoint 2010 with Digital
signatures.
•Ask the Experts – Developers – what a great opportunity again –
the “clinic” as I call it.
•Notes 2 SharePoint – Migrate your Notes Applications to
SharePoint
•and so many more …
Lots of time with exhibitors in the Expo – some really
innovative companies out there.