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RosettaNet Global Summit & Conference in Penang, MalaysiaI was honored

RosettaNet Global Summit & Conference in Penang, Malaysia

I was honored to be invited to speak for the RosettaNet Global Summit and Conference which, this year, was held in Penang, Malaysia. It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, as well as make some new global acquaintances. I especially enjoyed meeting Michael Noterangeli who later moderated my forum after one of my talks on One Decade of Optimizing Supply Chains: RosettaNet ROI and Best Practices. It was amazing to meet someone who is equally passionate about RosettaNet evangelism and adoption amongst Tier-3 (and beyond) suppliers and manufacturers.

All in all, it was a fabulous couple of days, and I’m inspired by the overall theme of RosettaNet looking for the “next big thing” in innovation to keep driving the organization forward. Also, a big thanks to Mr. HH Foong, a good friend, and the current RosettaNet Malaysian Director for his wonderful support during the event.

Of course, no blog entry would be complete without the photos… so here they are. These are from my talk and consequent forum on “One Decade of Optimizing Supply Chains: RosettaNet ROI and Best Practices”, and if you’re interested in the slides, then you can get them directly from RosettaNet Malaysia’s site here.

With RosettaNet Malaysia’s Director, Mr. HH Foong (to my right), with my Microsoft colleagues and together with the lovely ladies from Kompakar’s Penang Office.

Giving my talk on “One Decade of Optimizing Supply Chains: RosettaNet ROI and Best Practices”. It was a cool session, as I got to share our own RosettaNet story (I call it the “empowering story of the 7B1″) which was the building of the XBOX 360.

I was also invited to contribute to the forum on Supply Chain Optimization together with Intel and Cisco, chaired by Michael Noterangeli.

Another way of looking at this

Jamie A comments to an article on Channel Register:

Here’s a slightly less technical way of looking at the issue:

Microsoft essentially have 2 editions of a program. The first edition speaks English (User Interface) to the user, but in behind can speak French (COM) to other components.

The second edition also speaks English and French, but can also speak Russian (VSIP - Visual Studio Integration Programme).

Microsoft intends that your components speak Russian in order to extend Visual Studio. Their VSIP license agreement also states that you can only try to speak Russian to the second edition of the software. Attempting to speak Russian to the first edition is not allowed (even if it does speak the language).

Rather than try and speak Russian, Jamie has been using French. He has asked Visual Studio if it talks a certain dialect (COM interface), and it has said “oui”. So he uses that dialect to talk to Visual Studio in order to do what he needs.

The main problem from Microsoft’s point of view is that they didn’t intend for anyone to use that dialect of French in order to talk to Visual Studio. They only expected Russian to be used. However, there’s nothing that explicitly states this. Microsoft even has public notes on the French dialect.

Therefore, Jamie thinks he’s in the right because Microsoft have not said that speaking French is forbidden. Microsoft sees it the other way. And the way things are going, it looks like the decision is going to come from a judge or jury.

There will be some French lessons in a follow up post.

iPhone on Silverlight Promo Video?

On the Silverlight promo video did anyone notice one of the actors using a device that looks for all the world like an Apple iPhone?

Talking of the iPhone. Since its OS is based on a slimmed down version of OS X - I wonder if we can expect to see Silverlight running on the iPhone some point in the future?