Year of Consulting: 2007

My major focus in 2007 was project work. I positioned myself in the market for C# / .NET / SharePoint freelance professionals and completed a great number of projects (for both SMEs and a few well-known clients such as Philips, BP or Sony) most-often in fruitful co-operation with partner firms such as PSC Business Solutions and Acom Multimedia.

SharePoint and Enterprise Software

Microsoft launched SharePoint 2007 to big success. I learned a lot about the ins and outs of the kinds of software systems that Enterprises want to buy or build, how and why. Initially I was a .NET developer who found SharePoint straightforward to work with, and an interesting and inspiring concept. Increasingly, I witnessed some of its weaknesses and certain frustrations caused to end users, administrators and developers: there had to be a better way and a system like this could be done in so many better ways. Only later, way into 2008, did I make the decision towards building a better Enterprise software platform.