Frank is blogging about the beginning of the new financial year. I’ve always found this time of year pretty interesting because leading up to June 30 there are a whole heap of projects that companies what to get done quickly and then afterwards they suddenly get cashed up again for new work.
FY06 is probably going to be big for .NET developers because we are going to see the release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, and I think people are going to adopt it pretty quick – which means LOTS of interesting work.
This is also the year that Longhorn gets closer to release, although I don’t think we will see it ship until late FY07. Longhorn is important because it will bring together lots of runtime services and put them into the operating system.
Like I said – its going to be a big year!