It was July of 2004. One morning we were told there was a POC to be done, the client requirement was received and client strongly believed BizTalk was the solution. We analyzed and realised BizTalk was not meant for this scenario. So we had to prove it was an OverKill.
Learnt BizTalk when it was pretty new just by the documentation and samples(Thanks Microsoft!) and was able to deliver the POC in a month with two other alternate solutions one using Smart Documents and the other using Sarbanes Oxley Accelerator obviously with lot of weekends and late evenings spent by me and Prasanna.
And since we proved it was an overkill. The next product that client wanted to do it was K2.NET . Some people said hey Whats K2.NET ? we wont take it up we dont know this tool. (Trying to be a Hero/Fool) I said we know .NET, Sharepoint, BizTalk and this tool speaks about using all of these. So I dont see a problem. And the reply was "Awwab I will catch you for your words" (I still remember the statement and expression) Well someone was trying to scare me. Sorry dude its not easy to scare me, Thanks to Almighty could deliver and keep my Words.
I learnt K2.NET, developed the POC with Mital Shah and well Than came in lot of Business with K2.NET and we had to Train a team of people on this. And they are still managing the show. I dont know if they are cursing me for it or not.
Wowie... Technologies are so nice.!!!!!!!
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