Microsoft ESP announced

Starting Jan 1, 2008, the FS technology will be available for commercial purposes as a platform for solution providers to develop on top of.

See

https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216455,00.asp

https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQW08614112007-1.htm

Interesting times ahead.

Note the name is not an acronym for anything, it is just the 3 letters.