Microsoft announced “Oslo,” the code name for its long-term set of SOA technologies. Its investments will be aimed at bringing composite applications to the mainstream. Oslo will involve products including BizTalk Server 6, BizTalk Services 1 (an eventual hosted service version of BizTalk), .Net Framework 4, Visual Studio 10 and System Center 5. Oslo was announced during Microsoft’s conference on SOA and BPM occurring in Redmond this week. ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley noted that while Microsoft talked a lot of about its SOA vision at the conference, it said nothing about a timeline for implementing this vision. However, she believes that Microsoft will need a few years, at least, to start rolling out Oslo-related products. She writes:
“… to put things in perspective, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 just shipped in September and .Net Framework 3.5 isn’t slated to be generally available until late this year/early next. That means most of the aforementioned releases are probably a couple of years away, at best. The Directions on Microsoft research firm is telling clients to expect Microsoft to start rolling out these next-gen updates in 2009 and later.”
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