Every thing SharePoint 2016: Server roles based configuration wizard

SharePoint 2016 introduces new server role based farm configuration like you see in the image below.

I would think the role is actually based on the services that will be running on the server however, the rules are yet not been suggested by Microsoft.

One thing to ponder, Is this the beginning of the end of "3-tier architecture" deployment of SharePoint?

SharePoint 2016, InfoPath and its alternatives

SharePoint community has been given a peak by Microsoft at its plans for the on-prem version on its most popular collaboration platform.

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On form solutions, Microsoft is researching a web-based solution for the design and creation of forms, (says Microsoft MVP, Asif Rehmani) while InfoPath will be phased out with ease. Microsoft has not made anything official yet and nobody knows any timelines of a production release.

Meanwhile, a few alternatives to InfoPath forms are Nintex, K2, AgilePoint, he suggests.