The cat is out of the bag

It's been pretty fun being part of a project that gets so much public attention at such an early stage of the product cycle. Rumors and leaks about what we've been working on have been circling in the IT press and the blogosphere for awhile now, but we are just now publically letting the cat out of the bag.

At this week's Microsoft SOA and Business Process conference here on the Redmond campus of Microsoft, the Connected Systems Division has announced their new product roadmaps in the SOA and BP areas. This was primarily an announcement of the overall product that I have been working on since I started at Microsoft, a product code names Oslo. I won't attempt to give an overview of the product, and there's still plenty that we aren't able to talk about, but the overall vision is to "Significantly simplify the effort required to design, build, deploy and manage distributed applications within and across organizations." We want to provide the platform and tools to make this simple for organizations of any size, and dramatically increase the productivity and agility of both business and IT. In short, we want developers to be able to build these kinds of applications with one-tenth the code that is required today. And we want to establish a rich context for that developer to interact with Business Analysts and IT Professionals in an easy way.

Here are a number of articles that are making there way into the press and blogosphere about it:

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/10/Olso-announcement
• http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/archive/2007/10/30/microsoft-soa-and-bpm-conference-oslo.aspx
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044701&intsrc=hm_list
• http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47408
• http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1280299,00.html
• http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202800138