Microsoft's Project Barcelona (and other codenames worth watching)

There's a new Microsoft server coming to town.

Codenamed "Barcelona," the coming "metadata server" is akin to "a magical map of the enterprise data topology." It looks as if this new project is coming from the SQL Server team -- the folks who are working on "Denali," "Crescent," "Juneau" and a bunch of other new database-related deliverables.

Here's an architectural diagram for those of you (like me) who secretly love them:

The Codename Tracker PDF is the same chart I use myself to keep up with the codenames of products and technologies coming from Microsoft.

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