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Microsoft readies 'Green,' unified code base for business apps

Time: 19:50 EST/00:50 GMT | News Source: Internet Week | Posted By: Todd Richardson

Microsoft Business Solutions hopes to deliver on its promised unified code base for business applications by late next year, sources said. MBS,which encompasses diverse offerings from Microsoft's acquisitions of Great Plains Software, Navision and Solomon Software,plans to offer a unified code base for its full plate of ERP, supply chain management and related business apps.

The "next gen" code base, code-named Green or Project Green, is slated to be in usable form by late 2004, sources said. Microsoft executives have been quietly discussing the plan for some time, but it is a significant undertaking, and partners say the date is optimistic. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment on timing.