Marriott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3-5 December 2007

Interop Round Table & Happy Hour – Development Discussion on Interop and XML. (Hors d’oeuvres and drinks hosted by Microsoft)

Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Miguel de Icaza (Novell Inc.), Mattew Weier O’Phinney (Zend), Shyam Pather (Microsoft), Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft), Craig Kitterman (Microsoft)

16:00 Tuesday, 2007-12-04

XML Training – Sponsored by Microsoft Simmons

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Interoperability has long been a feature of Microsoft’s products and technologies, achieved through product engineering with strong support for XML, by working with customers, partners, competitors and government, by providing access to Microsoft technologies, and through engagement with standards-setting organizations. In its approach, Microsoft strives to bring technologies to market in a way that balances competitive innovation with the real interoperability needs of customers and partners.

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Douglas Crockford

Yahoo!

Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON data interchange format.

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Miguel de Icaza

Novell Inc.

Miguel is a prominent Open Source software developer, co-founder of the Gnome desktop project, and leader of the Mono project, which provides a .Net environment for Unix-compatible systems.

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Mattew Weier O’Phinney

Zend

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Shyam Pather

Microsoft

Shyam Pather is a Principal Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft. His team built some of the key infrastructure pieces within the ADO.NET Entity Framework, including the object-relational mapping and metadata systems. Shyam and his team are now focused on the Astoria project (an effort to help developers expose data services on the web), improving the DataSet experience with LINQ, and building the next generation of the core XML platform.

Shyam began his career at Microsoft in the Windows Networking team, working first on network driver infrastructure, then on the first two releases of Universal Plug and Play in Windows. Shyam joined the SQL Server team to work on an incubation project that eventually became SQL Server Notification Services. After shipping two releases of that product, Shyam started in his current role in Data Programmability.