Dublin Announced
Steve Martin, Senior Director of Product Management in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), made an pre-announcement yesterday on some technologies a bunch of us outside folks have been looking at the last year or so in development in CSD. They are a quite exciting bunch of technologies that will Microsoft is extending the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding a set of capabilities, "Dublin", aimed at making it easier to deploy, manage and monitor WF/WCF applications. The has been a pain point and need for some years now, particularly around having to build your own WF hosts.
Some of this originally fell under the "Oslo" long-term vision which I blogged way in the past as a general vision. As the plans and the products become more concrete, it seems like just the "modeling platform" will be what we refer to as Oslo from now on. See my former colleague Brian Loesgen's post for better clarity on this.
Rather than repeat him and my friend Matt Winkle from CSD, please see Matt's post details of the features of WF/WCF 4.0.
My Dublin category has been totally empty since August 2008, when Dublin was announced at the SOA Conference. Well, today it finally became public in the form of Windows AppFabric. As my good friend, Brian Loesgen writes , "Today at PDC Bob Muglia