Jezz Santos, a factory builder who is leading in designing and applying software factories, predicts that Microsoft will deliver factories with their products as well. I completely recognize his reasons why that would be a Good Thing.
Jezz uses a Sharepoint Factory as an example. Which is interesting, considering that at Macaw we are building the Macaw Solutions Factory, which targets (amongst other Microsoft server products) SharePoint.
At the last TechEd in Barcelona, Jezz and I talked for about an hour on our plans for the Macaw Solutions Factory, and how Jezz would go about designing that. Apparently Jezz recognized a need…