Microsoft Corp has just launched an OBA portal at http://www.obacentral.com. OBA Central is a one-stop resource for OBA solutions.  It was launched with great success, the site has had 170,000 hits in the first week itself. This is a community of Microsoft partners developing interesting Office Business Applications across industries and horizontal scenarios. Customers can search for OBAs by verticals, geography, business process or LOBs. The site also provides basic OBA introduction and points to resources on msdn solution architecture center and other sites. The site will grow the number of solutions and partners and also in terms of what customers and partners can do on the site. The phase 2 roll out will allow for more collaboration and networking with Wikis and Blogs and many other interesting features. Do visit the site today!