Considered late to the service-oriented architecture game, Microsoft is making its plans, if not its presence, known in a big way.
The company plans to make SOA more accessible and useful to customers by no less than changing the very premise of business application modeling, it said during its fifth annual SOA and business process conference here.
Microsoft said that it will begin offering enhanced SOA features and capabilities by extending current Microsoft products in five key areas: server, services, framework, tools and repository.
But much of the core technology that will make up its SOA strategy, code-named "Oslo," has not been released yet, and some critics assert that Microsoft's proprietary approach introduces inherent limitations to how far customers can extend their use of SOA.
