At TechEd this week Microsoft unveiled its vision for "last mile" applications to bring line of business data into the Office system.  They launched a whole new suite of acronyms including OBA, LOBi, OBE.

• Office Business Applications (OBA) - term given to applications built to surface line of business data in Office clients.
• LOBi for Office SharePoint Server - this appears to be the next version of the Information Bridge Framework.
• Office Business Entity - sounds like the same entities from IBF with a new, fancy name.

Microsoft also unveiled a new site: Office Business Applications Developer Portal

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to start showing my OBEs in MOSS using LOBi and the BDC...