The chatter is ramping up on 'Oslo', a coming-soon project from Microsoft.
Don Box says:
We're building "Oslo" to simplify the process of developing, deploying, and managing software. Our goal is to reduce the gap between the intention of the developer and the actual artifacts that get deployed and executed. The approach we're taking is to move more of the definition of an application into the world of data, where we (and you) can more easily make queries as to the developer's original intent.
Douglas Purdy says Oslo is:
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.
I have no idea what these people are talking about.
It sounds like something so hopelessly abstract as to be completely useless - not so much a solution to a problem, but a tool to create tools to create solutions to problems. Or something.
Surely the 'softies wouldn't waste years of their lives on something that silly? I must be missing the point of Oslo. I must be dumb.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Joel Spolsky writes about Oslo, and makes liberal use of the phrase architecture astronauts when he does.
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