The FabriKam 3.0 Solutions Learning Platform is now being made available on MSDN.

In this solutions learning platform, developers at a fictitious enterprise, FabriKam Inc, created solutions for common business processes. FabriKam, a furniture manufacturer with about 10,000 employees, faces business problems and challenges not unlike many of today's enterprises. Starting with a set of realistic infrastructure assumptions, FabriKam developers built five solutions and four reusable components that address FabriKam's needs in innovative ways, with extensive use of Web services, XML, integration of front-end applications and back-end systems, and full use of the Office environment with which most information workers are already familiar.

Microsoft will be making available the FabriKam virtual machine image containing all FabriKam solutions and components as part of a fully-functional Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 environment.