I’ve read Thomas’s post about Duet and specifically his concerns regarding Microsoft’s commitment to the project.

Just playing with some more with Google Trends (Google Trends: SAP NetWeaver, Oracle Fusion, Microsoft Dynamics):

I was just exploring the new Google Trends and I found some interesting search pattern.

“With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them most often.”

André Furtado’s SharpLudus project is a very interesting-looking application of the DSL Tools.

The proposed approach is targeted at the adventure games domain. It encompasses visual domain-specific languages, semantic validators and code generators to make game developers and designers to work more productively, with a higher level of abstraction and closer to their application domain. Such concepts were implemented and deployed into a host development environment (Visual Studio .NET), and a real world scenario was developed to illustrate and validate the proposal.

The recording of the Duet launch LiveMeeting that was held on Tuesday with Jeff Raikes and Shai Agassi’s is
now available here.

And now, the Duet™ architecture as you’ve never seen it before (drawn by an unknown artist):

Since I’m going to start concentrating on Duet™ I thought I should post an introduction post…

Microsoft and SAP will present Duet at Microsoft TechEd Israel 2006.
The presentation will take place as part of the Office 2007 track and will be presented by David Brutman (SAP) and Shay Freeman (MSFT). You can find the press release (in Hebrew) here.

Here is a brief review of the media coverage for the Duet„¢ launch:

Forbes: Headline – “Gates’ Microsoft Sings Duet With SAP”. “Birds of a feather? With the announcement of a plan to dovetail portions of software to perform quotidian tasks, Bill Gates’ software leviathan Microsoft and German giant SAP are tweeting from the same song sheet…New software called Duet, which debuts June 28 and costs at least $125 per PC.”

In additional to the 4 scenarios developed for the first version of Duet (Time Management, Leave Management, Organization Management and Budget Monitoring), Microsoft and SAP also announced today on plans to enhance the capabilities of Duet this year and to release additional business scenarios in the second half of 2006.