28 March 2006

Burgum Banged One Out of the Park

Doug Burgum hit one out of the park today. No Marco Polo, no flocks of birds. We got to see the real Doug. He talked about how his background and childhood have have shaped the values of Great Plains and now Microsoft Dynamics. Doug successfully linked the small town dynamics of Arthur, North Dakota to the community being built around Dynamics. I had a hot dog with Doug once at a Tech Ed. He's a nice guy and that really came out today. Maybe Bill should take a lesson from Doug!

Satya Nadella showed off all the community things I blogged about just a minute ago. Thank God somebody is finally pushing Newsgroups, Suggestions and MVP's. Satya you are right on point! Give us an expanded ability to follow the newsgroups via RSS! Yeah, I'll add it to the suggestions.

Satya also showed off the sandbox, snippets of shared code for Dynamics. Unfortunately, there's no SNAP items yet for GP, so I'll have to keep watching it over time.

Update: I corrected Doug Burgum's home state from Montana to North Dakota. I knew that but apparently there was a bug in my mental code. I've applied the service pack and fixed this post.