Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Tim Brookins blogs that MBF (Microsoft Business Framework) has been delayed and will be released when Longhorn is. For what I've seen from MBF, it will be a very great platform and reading Tim's explanations I can fully understand why MS is delaying it, as much in MBF requires technology released with Longhorn anyway.

My question is: what about Objectspaces? Objectspaces is one of the foundations of MBF and was scheduled to be released slightly after Whidbey, approximately together with the first MBF bits, however now MBF isn't coming in 2005, is Objectspaces' release also delayed?

Published Monday, May 10, 2004 6:55 PM by FransBouma
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# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Monday, May 10, 2004 4:50 PM by Alex Thissen
Great question indeed, Frans. I would say the release date of MBF is dependent upon that of ObjectSpaces, not the other way around. So, MBF can come any time after OS has been released.
Haven't heard any of the OS team members on it recently. Who knows?

# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:43 AM by Marcus Mac Innes
I agree. From speaking with Microsoft guys here in Ireland the word is that MBF is definately dependent on ObjectSpaces. I was told about the ObjectSpaces delay 4 weeks before it announced but couldn't say anything until it was official. MBF (Kevin Ransom) made a request for beta testers back in March and as a result of the OS delay, this was also put on the back burner.

At this rate Visual Studio 2005 will be little more than a service pack to fix some bugs!

# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:41 AM by anonymous
Rumor is that Microsoft is being sued by a major vendor in the objectspaces arena which may prevent MS from shipping objectspaces at all.

# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:48 AM by Frans Bouma
"Rumor is that Microsoft is being sued by a major vendor in the objectspaces arena which may prevent MS from shipping objectspaces at all."

Not that I know of. :) I heard rumours about a lawsuit when Objectspaces was part of the framework. Now that it isn't anymore, the rumour dissapeared.

# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:10 AM by Paul Gielens
At this rate Visual Studio 2005 will be little more than a service pack to fix some bugs!

Which is more then enough for the time being.

# re: Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) delayed till 2006

Friday, May 14, 2004 6:16 AM by Thomas Tomiczek
::Not that I know of. :) I heard rumours about
::a lawsuit when Objectspaces was part of the
::framework. Now that it isn't anymore, the
::rumour dissapeared.

No, maybe not.

See, making something available for free (and under your own cost) and ruining other people's business is STILL illegal according to a lot of legislations.