Microsoft's Business Solutions unit and its partners are testing new Web-service add-ons to Microsoft's enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications by making code available under various Microsoft Shared Source licenses. Microsoft quietly has been posting these add-ons to work spaces on its GotDotNet source-code hosting site since fall. Like the MSN business unit, MBS is testing potential new products and code samples by sharing them via "Sandbox" test sites, company officials said.
The most recent Sandbox project, which MBS unveiled officially on Feb. 20, is a family of Dynamics Snap tools that are designed to bridge Microsoft Office 2003 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and Dynamics AX 3.0 (formerly Axapta) ERP products. Microsoft is making the Snap code for these first Snap tools available under the Shared Source Permissive license. Additional Shared Source Snap tools are in the pipeline, officials said.
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