eWeek: Project Green is Dead—for the Foreseeable Future, at Least

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http://www.channelinsider.com/articl.../202966_1.aspx

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It's not a rumor. Project Green is dead or at least on life support. Converging Microsoft's Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management suites to a single code base is no longer the objective for the Dynamics development team.
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"Will we get to a single code base? Maybe. It could be multiple, it could be one," said Coulombe. "But it could be multiple. What we're trying to do is say, 'What are the strategic things that allow us to add value to our customers?' And we're trying to focus in certain industries, with certain products…so one, two, three code bases, it doesn't matter. It's about driving value to the customers."More importantly, according to analysts, it's about keeping Microsoft's customer and (huge) ISV base happy.
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On the other hand, recent Micorosoft Dynamics Innovation Roadmap Brochure (https://mbs.microsoft.com/downloads/...e_US_Final.pdf) reads:

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We [Microsoft] believe Wave 2, with releases starting in 2008, will introduce a fundamental and exciting shift through the delivery of a new model-driven logic engine that will help drive down the cost of customizing business applications. Instead of “forms talking to logic talking to database” application design, the design will be based around business processes that fl ow across different people and different departments in a company – a software design that maps more closely to the way companies already work. These releases provide customers with an iterative, manageable way to transition to a new generation of technology and to a comprehensive converged solution.

Also note the following diagram from the same brochure: