DSL tools and Oslo

2008.06的TechEd，比尔大叔提到了MDD和Oslo，说10月份的PDC会放出CTP版本

At TechEd United States 2008 (June 2008), Chairman Bill Gates discussed in his keynote the ways in which modeling would transform the future of application development, and the role that “Oslo” plays in these efforts. He also disclosed that a community technology preview (CTP) will be released at the Professional Developers Conference in October 2008.

“I think one of the biggest trends in application development that I talked about… is modeling, and we're making a big investment in that. We have what's been code named Oslo, and talked a little bit about it on our Web sites and our blogs, which is this model-driven development platform. It's actually taking the kind of models that you're seeing arising in specific domains, like software management in System Center, or your data design over in SQL, or your process activities over in BizTalk and saying, we need to take all these domains and be able to put them into one model space. In fact, we need to let people create their own domains that aren't just isolated, but that exist in this one modeling space. And that's what Oslo is about.”

Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft

• Watch video by Bill Gates discussing the future of application development. (.wmv)

2008.10的PDC放出了一段Oslo的Demo
Oslo Technologies
o   Repository Database
o   “M” Modelling Language
o   “Quadrant” modelling tool

"M" Modelling Language像是一种数据库的textual language

Quadrant像是一种基于M语言的，可视化的DSL，并且是Isolated的哦

http://bloggersguides.net/有更多的介绍

关于二者的关系，Keith Short has posted here.