As Project Green, the multiyear—and multiwave—plan to revamp Microsoft's business applications around a services-oriented architecture and unified code base, takes shape, it may be only a matter of time before Microsoft enters the hosted applications services space. That possibility was discussed by Microsoft Corp. executives at the Microsoft Business Solutions Convergence show here this week.
Microsoft currently relies on partners to host its business applications and sell access to them as subscription services. But as the Microsoft applications move to a componentized model on a services-oriented architecture—planned for 2008—hosted applications services from Microsoft could soon follow.
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