Oslo's Coming Out Party at the PDC
I am not going to be able to go to the PDC this time which is a shame because, although there will be other huge announcements, this PDC is really Oslo's coming out party and the things I have been seeing in SDRs and other internal events for the last couple of years, we will all be able to view and talk about. I blogged about a year ago from the SOA and BPM Conference when CSD allowed us to say a little with the accompanying press release. Since that, a lot has changed and Dublin as well as WCF/WF 4.0 and VS2010 have been split out from Oslo and now Oslo just equals the modeling piece. We have not been to say really anything since, and I am prohibited from saying anything substantial until Monday morning's announcements and Doug Purdy's lap on Tuesday but, in the meantime, Oslo-lites like Don Box, Doug Purdy and especially Steve Martin have publicly defined Oslo, and Steve Martin has even talked about the product pieces publicly.
"With Oslo, we’re doing two things:
1. We’re making it easier for people to write things down in ways that make sense for the domain they are working in – the common term for this in the wild is modeling.
2. We’re making the things people wrote down accessible to platform components during program execution."
"To that end, we have boiled down Oslo to three very simple things:
- A tool that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner
- A language that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages and data models
- A relational repository that makes models available to both tools and platform components
That is it. That is all Oslo is. Oslo is just the modeling platform.
As simple as that story is, the impact of this platform on software development and management will be transformational, which we intend to demonstrate."
And, Steve Martin announced "Quadrant" and "M":
"One of the things we promised when we made that first announcement was to deliver a CTP of Oslo at the PDC – a commitment I’m very proud to say we’ll keep. In less than three weeks, the those attending the PDC will get a first-hand look at the three technologies that make up Oslo:
- A language – codenamed “M” – that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages (DSLs) and data models
- A relational repository – that makes models available to both tools and platform components
- A tool – codenamed “Quadrant” – that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner ."
So, enjoy the show and see if you agree on the 10x productivity improvement they are shooting for. I have meaty posts queued up for the right time, so I'll have much more then.
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