Microsoft's Helland thinks big
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft platform architect Pat Helland has lots to say about SOAs, cities and hooking systems together. In a company where most of the 58,000 employees are paid to sweat the details, Microsoft's Pat Helland is somewhat of an anomaly. He is a big-picture thinker.
Nine-year Microsoft veteran Helland came to Microsoft from Tandem Computers, where he was chief architect and senior implementer of the transaction monitoring facility. He has done lots of work in high-end computing arenas, such as parallel processing, clustering, 64-bit computing and the like. He was one of the chief architects on the Microsoft Transaction Server.