Invited Talk
Erik Meijer, Microsoft, USA:
"LINQ 2.0: Democratizing the Cloud"
The web is rocking the world of developers. Our customers love consistency. They want to have the same rich experience, anywhere, any time, on any device. Our sales people love market share.They want no platform that cannot leverage their web services. We as developers have embraced agile methods. We want to keep our options open as long as possible and create software incrementally by successive refactorings. This surely sounds like a contradiction, another impossible triangle just like infamous Relations-Objects-XML trio we tackled with LINQ 1.0. As the Dutch artist MC Escher once said "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible". With LINQ 2.0, we are trying to stretch the .NET framework to cover the Cloud such that it will become possible to incrementally and seamlessly design, develop, and debug complex distributed applications using your favorite existing and unmodified .NET compiler and deploy these applications anywhere.