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Past Meeting - Apr 17, 2003Meetings Picture

Learn about .NET and the Enterprise: Does Java *really* rule??

Thursday, April 17
6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

Join your colleagues at the next meeting of The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), featuring Suresh Sreedharan and Scott Kerfoot -- both architect-level evangelists -- of Microsoft. They will give a technical presentation detailing why Microsoft's .NET product family is a superior platform for numerous enterprise solutions ... superior to even the Java-based offerings.

.NET has been Microsoft's platform-apparent for nearly three years. Starting with very BASIC offerings, it has evolved to encompass scores of languages, a first class development environment, and numerous enterprise-class APIs and backend subsystems. In 2003, it is poised to seriously compete with existing enterprise-class Java solutions ... or has it already surpassed them??

Presenter Bio -- Suresh Sreedharan

Suresh Sreedharan has been working in the software industry for the past 6 1/2 years. He started his career working with a satellite communication company in India. Later, he joined one of the big software development houses in India working on management tool based on the concept of balanced scorecards, and later moved to the US. He has worked as a consultant at NASDAQ, Cahners travel group, to name a few. Prior to joining Microsoft, Suresh worked on Java/J2EE technologies. He has been working with Microsoft for the past year as a .NET developer evangelist. His role is to work with developers helping them build solutions using the .NET framework.

Presenter Bio -- Scott Kerfoot

A nineteen year veteran of Software and Information Technology, since November, 2000 Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation as a Technology Specialist and currently as a .NET Architect Evangelist. As a .Net Architect Evangelist he communicates the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform and .NET to Fortune 500 companies. He is focused on helping these businesses architect solutions based on the Microsoft Platform so as to reduce costs and increase profits -- leveraging solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.