Thanks to the wonder of Google Alerts, I discovered tonight that there's yet another entity/concept going by the moniker EMF. The list now contains software, music, physics... and at least one consulting company that writes about MDD (or is it MDD?) and embedded systems:
- Eclipse Modeling Framework
- Enhanced Metafile
- That 'Unbelievable' UK band from the late 80s
- Electronic Music Foundation
- Electromotive force
- Electromagnetic field
- Embedded Market Forecasters
embeddedforecast.com's whitepaper, entitled What Do You Do When the Horse You’re Riding Drops Dead: Why Model Driven Design is Emerging as a Preferred Best Practice, has some very nice things to say about the world of MDD. While it doesn't actually mention Eclipse or EMF -- presumably to avoid confusing the reader with ambiguous TLAs, it does mention Telelogic's Rhapsody which is built on Eclipse, and speaks highly of UML, stating that organizations using modeling are seven times more likely to make or beat schedules. It also suggests some Dilbert-like solutions to the problem faced when riding a dead horse. Worth a look.
