While I was staffing the booth of the Belgian Dynamics Community at Microsoft Techdays 2008, I came to the conclusion that IT and religion are closely connected after all. I was at the heart of the ‘believers’ community. 2500 ‘techies’, ‘nerds’ or ‘developers’ eat, drink and breathe Microsoft every minute of the day. During 3 days, the ICC in Ghent was a temple. Among Microsoft’s millions of Euros spent on marketing and evangelism each year, this is without any doubt the best-spent money. I felt closer to God thay I ever did in the past 20 years.
I also had a discussion with a guy from Citrix on the ‘war of the giants’ between Yahoo/Microsoft/Google and what’s ahead of us. “To understand what this war is all about, just analyze the word ‘IT’ “, he said. “It stands for two words ‘Information’ and ‘Technology’. Which word would you bet your future on if you were one of those big software companies?”.
