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douglas
Interesting interview with one of the PM's from the MBF team. The much delayed Business foundation, which was linked heavily to WinFS.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1789299,00.asp
Interesting observations. MBF is part of the Orcas VS delivery. and it is expected in late 2k7.
Now where does this put Orcas at. I for one don't want to Shell out 300+ for standard 1200+ for pro (retail prices) and turn around a Year later and look at upgrading for LH.
Personally, Whidbey has been delayed Long Enough that if LH is released in 2k6 the designers for the platform should be built to work within whidbey. It would be interesting to see the Tools support evolve for both Avalon and ASP.NET on the “designer role“ but keep the cost in the realm of the Single Consultants realm.
So the whys of Orcas in 2k7.
It will give time for the Product to mature. Also the ability to implement version 2 of most of the DSL additions. Hopefully bring in a Small teams approach to some of the LIFELINE tools.
Delivery of a solution for the biggest issue we face in more software design. The mismatch between Objects, relational data and xml data. And the move to the universal data store.
I am sure these questions will be addressed at PDC 2k5. Although it would be nice to know before I drop the money on the Whidbey platform. or make a decision on which poison to pick on the MSDN subscriptions.
I am a small vendor. so in my role I am architech, test and the like. I do believe that team systems does have a Place. but give us a path to upgrade from.
An example would be that we already have source safe for small teams that can move up to Team Systems source control as the team expands.
it would be nice to have that for bug and workflow items.
the team already knows I would like to push source control all the way down to express editions. I personally believe that the Testing platform should start at express and propegate to a Test Team enviroment. IOW if we are going to give the tools for Hobbiests and dabblers at least give the tools to start down the road to proper develoment.
Oh well, got off on a tangent there. So back to the topic at hand. When do you want orcas and what feature set do you want. I personally am hoping that Orcas is now focused around the LH server delivery with particuliar view of delivering the WinFS platfrom for the Client and what ever they call the server vesion.
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