Project Mendocino will now be known as Duet.
You can get some more details at the newly launched www.duet.com.

Microsoft and SAP are planning a Web press conference on Tuesday to update our plans for Mendocino. Scheduled to participate in the “Live Meeting” event are Microsoft business division President Jeff Raikes and SAP product and technology group President Shai Agassi.

Ha’aretz is featuring an article about Mendocino and the group in Israel.

Agassi is not the only Israeli component in the project; SAP’s Israeli development labs and personnel from Microsoft Israel also hold key positions in the enterprise. This article is the first report on this group, whose members usually work in competition with one another.

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Don Reamey, who is one of the guys we’re working with at Microsoft, started blogging about Mendocino.
I read that he plans on writing a set of articles on the design and architecture of Mendocino.
Should be interesting…

The SQL Server 2005 SP1 is finally out and what interests me the most is the management studio for SQL Express which is finally released not as a CTP.

Cleaned up my blogroll and added an SAP category.
Turns out there’s a growing community of SAP corporate bloggers I was not aware of until recently.
If you are an SAP employee you should also check out Jeff Nolan’s internal blog here.

Yep, finally got some spare time to update this blog.
Work has been keeping me very busy latelly as our release date approaches.
Unfortunatelly there’s not much that can be disclosed except whats already in the news but I’ve noticed that https://www.projectmendocino.com/ got updated recently with some new material.

Woke up this morning and I didn’t find myself sharing a room with some european girls.
Looked up the window and could not see any mountains, not even a lake, just the building across the street.
The news headline were not about Tom taking Katie to a cruise, Paris’s latest boyfriend or whatever…
While going to work I got the wipers working everytime I tried to give a signal (need to get used to driving on the right again)

I have a flight to catch on the 24th and so much stuff to do so I’m currently on a real tight schedule.