Lukas Svoboda: Strategy, Architecture, Governance & Technology

Since Gianpaolo blogged me blogging/recording him I thought I'd do the decent thing and blog him back. Must be something to do with the state of my mind today J Oh and hobbits – yes hobbits are relevant to this post…!

Over on ARCast NZ, I've just published a podcast with Gianpaolo Carraro on Software plus Services from an Architecture perspective. The talk covers the following topics plus more:

• What is the difference between "Software plus Services" and "Software as a Service"
• Explore the different audiences of S+S/SaaS: Builders, Hosters and Enterprise Consumers
• Explore the focus of many SaaS providers around purely being web based applications
• How Microsoft technologies aid S+S initiatives
• The significance of SOA to S+S/SaaS

Gianpaolo is the director of Architecture Strategy at Microsoft and focuses on thought leadership and best practices around various architectural trends such as SaaS/S+S and SOA.

Some cool comments I really appreciate from Mark Carroll on the recent ARCast I did recently with Ron Jacobs. Mark Carroll for those who don't know is the Architect in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Strategy group here in New Zealand.

I've posted another architecture podcast (ARCast :)) on www.arcast.co.nz - this one is a recording I did with Ron Jacobs as part of his recent trip to New Zealand.  You can find the specific entry here or go straight to the podcast feed.

I've posted a new ARCast (Architecture Pod Cast) with John Bernhard, Enterprise Architect of AirNZ on the topic "The role of the Architect to Challenge". Find it at www.arcast.co.nz . I also worked out how to setup a RSS stream for podcasting only, it's added to the navigation links or you can find it here J