MS splits Project Green into two waves
A "first wave" of applications will begin shipping this year, while a "second wave" is scheduled to commence in 2008, leading to a converged code base, Burgum said.
Microsoft announced plans to combine its major business applications -- Axapta, Great Plains, Solomon, Navision and Microsoft CRM -- on one code base, dubbed "Project Green." The company initially put Project Green on an ambitious development path and forecast deliverables as early as 2004, but in the past year Microsoft has extended its development window and scaled back expectations.
Starting in 2008, Microsoft expects to release "second wave" updates moving the applications toward a common code base and a shared, model-driven business process architecture. Those second-wave updates will be integrated with Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn operating system update, which isn't due until 2006, and its still-in-development Microsoft Office 12 upgrade.
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MS splits Project Green into two waves