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R.I.P.: Project Green, 2003-2007

Microsoft's grand unified theory of business processing applications has come to naught. Project Green is either dead or comatose. Whichever, it's another sign that the pieces Microsoft acquired to make up its Dynamics product line simply don't fit well together.


Project Green started making headlines in late summer 2003, a few months before Microsoft made the formal announcement of what was supposed to become a horizontally integrated ERP suite. Project Green would do for ERP applications what bundling did for Office: put together disparate but related applications in a tidy, integrated package and eventually bring them to a single code base.

But Project Green seemed doomed right from its conception, with the horizontal-bundling task running into logistical and management problems. What looked good in concept proved harder to execute, and the channel may have been one of the major reasons.

With the acquisition of products like Great Plains and Navision, Microsoft also picked up existing sales channels that were as disparate as the products. Since then, Microsoft has struggled to integrate the disparate sales channels into existing programs and processes. Even today, Dynamics products are sold differently than every other Microsoft desktop or server application.

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