What are the differences between the EFx Factory and software factories such as the Web Service Software Factory from patterns & practices?
[Now, I do need to say this, I do work closely with the patterns & practices teams who built Service Factory, in fact, I am still a member of the expert advisory board on that project. So, I do need to be careful how I word this 🙂 or Don and Tom will kill me.] My aim here is to give a fair comparison between the two factories from the point of view of the customers using them and market assessing them. What is available today, and what customers can expect to see from factories in this space in the future (especially from Microsoft). Therefore, this is not about how they were implemented technically, but more about how they are designed, and how they are used to do what they do from the customer end-user perspective. I thought this was going to be a brief post, but I was wrong again. (I’ll get there eventually). [I’m using colour to distinguish the answers for each factory, and aid readability (hopefully). Not here of course, but below.
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