Microsoft must fight the urge to let smoother integration among its own offerings throw up roadblocks to integration with others' products.
At Microsoft's recent convergence customer conference, company officials fleshed out plans for "Project Green," the software vendor's initiative for unifying its business applications around a single code base and service-oriented architecture. According to Microsoft executives, Project Green is set to begin bearing fruit sometime between now and 2007 with user interface integration of the company's Great Plains, Axapta, Solomon and Navision suites. A second wave in 2008 is intended to integrate those products around a single code base.
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