The specific product that I think is most interesting in the MDA arena is Microsoft's software factories. While the Microsoft product is not specifically and MDA tool and actually Microsoft has publicly said that UML and MDA as defined by the Object Management Group are too general their software factories that are based on DSLs or Domain specific languages are very much a portion of the MDA framework. OMG is very ambitious to think that every problem can be produced on any platform with a handful of different modeling languages, that is why Microsoft, one of the if not the largest and most resourceful software development company in the world is backing an initiative that it feels is realistic and will be profitable to us developers. Below are some images describing how Microsoft Plans to implement these software factories using domain specific languages.
One thing to note about microsoft right now is that they have not released any software factories, so even though they are not as ambitious as OMG in their MDA aspirations they are still working on a working implementation of their specific tools. Because of this there is no pricing information available, or even a good idea of when these software factories will be available.
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