Sing this to the Bruce Springsteen version replacing Santa Claus...

Rocky will be in the ATL for a number of meetings, starting Tuesday with a Geek Dinner at 5 Season's Brewery in Alpharetta. 

On Wednesday Rocky will be joining us at ALEMUG to talk about Oslo.  This will be a very interesting discussion based on some of the recent developments in trajectory with Oslo.

If you are unfamiliar with Rocky he is the Principal Technology Evangelist at Magenic, a well known author, and is responsible for the CSLA framework that helps people build business objects.

Do yourself a favor and swing by for one (or both) of these events.  Rocky is a great guy and always has an interesting viewpoint of technology.

The OSLO story just continues to amaze and perplex me.  I am a bit late with the reference but Doug Purdy posted on the 10th about the next transformation of OSLO, now being called SQL Server Modeling.  What should not be missed are the roughly 60 comments on this post - many of those taking an adversarial feel.

While a part of me enjoys the existence of SQL Server continuing I was really hoping to see some sort of transcendent technology coming our way.  I suppose the PDC conference next week could still have some big "wow" moment but that now seems less and less likely.

I would love to hear from you, dear reader...what do you think about this change in name (and likely direction)?

Another interesting announcement in regards to Oslo over on Doug Purdy's blog.  The Data Programmability Team has been folded into the Oslo team responsible for M, Quadrant and Repository.  It sounds like PDC will begin the explosion of details (hopefully).  Right now there is a lot of conjecture but not much substance.

It will be interesting to see how the inclusion of the programmability teams affects the design and eventual release of the Oslo product.