20 Years of Dynamics

Almost 20 years ago, in July of 2002, Microsoft acquired Dynamics AX. Several months later, in October 2002, I landed my first job and started learning X++. AX3.0 had just dropped, but the company I worked for in Belgium still had some AX2.5 implementations going on. Unforgettable implementations were the one that was using Oracle as its database, another was implementing AX2.5 “enterprise portal” which at the time was an ASP site calling X++ classes over a COM connector, with X++ classes returning strings of HTML.