Day 3 starts – the real warriors are up and at it ready for another day.  Some are still in bed after the night before!

Expert Panel Session – “Will Public Offerings or Private cloud Solutions influence the Adoption of SharePoint as a Web and Application Platform”.  Some selected quotes:

• Infrastructure no longer matters
• Developers need to fond a new way to have their code built and then trusted by tightly controlled clouds
• In the cloud every company can have enterprise grade infrastructure available to them
• Office 365 really brings cloud to the masses at a very affordable price
• Microsoft has switched focus – the new software is first built to be cloud ready and then on-premise ready – quite the switch
• The cloud has made us develop a better product than our roadmap had intended – using Windows Azure for extra services that would not have been possible
• Someday we will all be in a cloud – either a public or a private cloud
• Lots more great points (but I was catching up on work email – and half listening!)

Next Session – “How to build a great session with SharePoint – in 45 minutes ” – David Colombo from Microsoft.  Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef) is the target website – a place I’d love to go visit having seen the website.  Pretty impressive Level 300 (showing the code) demo.

Very interesting to see delegates at the conference on laptops on the European SharePoint Community site and downloading session presentations.  A long way from the first conferences with large binders with all the materials.

More great sessions:

• Automated Approvals in SharePoint 2010 with Digital signatures.
• Ask the Experts – Developers – what a great opportunity again – the “clinic” as I call it.
• Notes 2 SharePoint – Migrate your Notes Applications to SharePoint
• and so many more …

Lots of time with exhibitors in the Expo – some really innovative companies out there.

Meetings with customers and partners who were at the conference all setup for today.

Closing remarks by Michael Greth (Program Committee and MVP Germany).  Looking forward to the European SharePoint conference 2012.

One more customer meeting and then (finally!) into Berlin to be a tourist and to see the Berlin Wall and the Brandenberg Gate.