What would be the benefits of such a language? It's to more easily automate business processes and modify them. And it's so the CIO can measure compliance. That's increasingly important. You want to know what the software is doing, to make that fairly transparent so you can guarantee compliance. We are exploring the possibility of doing a new kind of language -- a graphical language or a scripting language or something that is sharply tailored to the needs of the business analyst.

I think embedding process models into a network fabric is another expression of the same idea. I have in mind something like Cisco's AON [Application-Oriented Networking] intelligent enterprise network message-routing system. It's possible to integrate business-oriented metadata to help optimize and manage network messaging traffic.