Launch Into 2008...A Microsoft Geek's Timeline
For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile/Scrum methodologies exclusively to run our projects):
- Simula 67 '67
- Pascal '70
- Internet Goes Public '92
- SQL Server 4.21 Shipped '92
- Scrum Created '93
- SOA Coined '96
- MS Released OLAP Services '98
- EAI Coined '99
- C# Announced '00
- Web Services Coined '00
- WSDL 1.0 Spec. '00
- SOAP 1.1 Spec. '00
- SQL Server Released '00
- Neudesic Formed '01
- Agile Manifesto '01
- ESB Coined '02
- "Indigo" Available '03
- WS-Security 1.0 Spec '04
- Neuron Conceived '05
- .NET 3.0 RTM '06
- LINQ Announced '05
- C# 3.0 RTM '07
- .NET 3.5 RTM '07
- SOAP 1.2 Spec. '07
- Neuron RTM '07
- SQL Server 2008 '08