In doing some research for a client on workflow in SharePoint, I came across this interesting article about the differences between BizTalk 2006 and the .NET Workflow Foundation (WF).
The article itself was worth the read for its main point, but I was also interested in Microsoft’s Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization (“APIO”) model.
The “dynamic” level of the APIO model describes the kind of system that I believe the .NET platform has been aiming at since 3.0.
I’ve been eyeing the tools… between MS’s initiatives, my co-workers’ project abstracts, and the types of work that’s coming down the pike in consulting. From the timing of MS’s releases, and the feature sets thereof, I should have known that the webinars they’ve released on the topic have been around for just over a year.
This also plays into Microsoft Oslo. I have suspected that Windows Workflow Foundation, or some derivative thereof, is at the heart of the modeling paradigm that Oslo is based on.
All this stuff feeds into a hypothesis I’ve mentioned before that I call “metaware”, a metadata layer on top of software. I think it’s a different shade of good old CASE… because, as we all know… “CASE is dead… Long live CASE!”
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.