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Following that, Bill Gates talked saying: "Making Office into a platform is very important to us...Office will be taking on a very ambitious agenda in the future...Our investment in the Office platform today is greater than it's ever been." I think that was proven by some pretty great platform demos, especially this one by FedEx. He talked quite a bit about S+S as well. My team was lucky enough to meet Bill Gates, shake his hand and get our picture taken with him! Check it out: I'm the one right beside him in the glasses:
Kurt DelBene, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Office Business Platform Group, was next and talked about how SharePoint is the glue which ties people, processes and data together, what that means to developers with the investments in the platform, tooling with Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint Designer as well as 
There were also a great line-up of sessions including the "un-conference" where people could suggest anything they wanted to hear about, create their own sessions. Topics included things like "How to handle paper documents in SharePoint", "Using OBA for automating ISO 9000 document approval process", and "Designing a SharePoint Intranet - Developing the Information Architecture".
Needless to say, it was awesome.
There were several resources announced at the Office Developer Conference on Monday that if you are a developer or architect, are just going to knock your socks off.
The great line-up consists of:
- OBA Sample Application Kits for SAP and PeopleSoft
- OBA Platform Scenarios for Customer Service Request Management and Sales Proposal Management
- Financial Services OBA Component Library
- OBA RAP for Loan Origination
- OBA Composition Reference Toolkit
OBA Sample Application Kits for SAP and PeopleSoft
These Kits are comprised of two new exciting pieces of guidance for Office developers: the OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP v2 and a “Sneak Peak” of the OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft. They highlight Office 2007 and SharePoint with Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Visual Studio Tools for Office v 3.0. Each kit shows a model Office Business Application but specifically, the OBA for PeopleSoft shows a Human Resources Recruiting scenario and the OBA for SAP shows a Business Travel Package Management scenario.
The Kit for SAP includes:
- Sample code in Visual Studio 2008 solution files
- Installation guidance
- Whitepaper
The Sneak Peak of the Kit for PeopleSoft includes
- A white paper showing a sneak peek of the Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft
All attendees of the Office Developer Conference received a CD of the kits and the download will be coming soon.
OBA Platform Scenarios
Two important scenarios,