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Microsoft's Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, in an interview with eWEEK at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, delved into a series of subjects, most prominently open source and interoperability, software modeling, and the Windows Azure cloud operating system. What is very interesting in the interview with eWeek.com is the topics that are linked together: open source, interoperability, software modeling and domain-specific languages . I truly think Ray Ozzie is the right person to drive things, his innovation to the software world such as Lotus Notes, Groove and a bunch of other things has demonstrated that he is "a man walking his own path" and I believe that when he says interoperability is important it is also going to mean that going forward.
Ray Ozzie concludes about Microsoft modeling strategy and what it means to Windows Azure in following way:

In the abstract I'll just say the quest, the ultimate goal, is that we push the limits as much as we can to see how much we can abstract into modeling from the entire life cycle from the analyst to the developer to the person who understands ... from the person who understands the business problem to be solved to the developer who will probably in some cases have to wrap it with code, with some procedural code, to how it gets deployed, and to how it gets managed in an operational environment.

What is very interesting to me in the whole scenario about cloud computing combined with modeling is that domain-specific languages or domain-specific modeling (DSM) requires a platform with services so to me this is a non-brainer when thinking about the discussion whether DSL or DSM is needed. We need higher abstraction levels in our development, we need to get to a point where we can address the business issues and requirements in a way that we do not have to reinvent the wheel all over again. I like the article from eWeek.com. I highly recommend you to read it to learn more about Ray Ozzie's thoughts.
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