2/28/2004 05:09:00 PM

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse | CNET News.com

Boring FUD? Playing catch up with the seasoned modelers? Perhaps.

This caught my attention, though:

With Whitehorse, Microsoft is looking to streamline both the development and implementation phases of an application. The tool provides a common XML-based language, called System Definition Model, for sharing information, such as an application's hardware requirements and the constraints that network designers put on their physical infrastructure. For example, a designer can test whether the security settings on an application under development match the security requirements of a particular server, as specified by the network administrator.

Tying the architect, developer and administrator together through XML sounds like a very good thing to me.