A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Astoria Microsoft code name of the day: Astoria
Best guess on what it is: A set of technologies allowing applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. Astoria is one component of Microsoft?s ?data-in-the-cloud? strategy.
Meaning/context of the code name: There?s an Astoria, Queens. There?s an Astoria, Oregon (with its 125-foot high Astoria Column, ?patterned after Trajan?s Column in Rome by architect Electus Ritchfield?.?) There?s the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. But I am doubtful any of these were the inspiration for Project Astoria. Anyone on the Astoria team want to share the origins of this codename?
Back story: Astoria is described by Microsoft as a project from the Data Programmability Team. But according to the home page URL, Astoria also has its roots in Microsoft?s Live Labs, which is a joint effort between the MSN and Microsoft Research teams. Microsoft shared the first public details about its Astoria plans at its Mix ?07 conference in late April 2007.Continue At Source
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