As many other people I was (and still am) excited about Microsoft Oslo . Microsoft showing an increasing interest in modeling technologies is always good news (e.g. this means they think they can make some money with modeling).
The problem is that it is still unclear (at least to me) what Microsoft pretends to do with Oslo. At the beginning, there was already some confusion about the relationship between Oslo and the DSL Tools group (see the explanation given by Stuart Kent and Keith Short ). Now, I’ve read in eWeek that Microsoft has decided to merge the Oslo team with the data Programmability team.
We’ll see what are the real implications of this decision
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Jorge Ubeda points me to this other interesting blog post about Oslo by Jean-Jacques Dubray “So from a pure General Purpose Foundation for Model Driven Engineering, Oslo is dead, from a SOA perspective, it never started, ”