In case you've missed it, there's a been a raft of BizTalk vNext announcements recently. In my
last post I referred to BizTalk 2006 R3. Well, turns out R3 is dead. Long live
BizTalk Server 2009.
The BizTalk team have now published a very clear
Roadmap which talks about
where we were,
where we are and
where we are going. I was particularly interested to note this in the
BizTalk Server and "Oslo" and .NET:
"In response to customer feedback, we are committed to continued support for BizTalk Server’s XLANG orchestration technology - the existing BizTalk orchestration engine. Additional support for WF will be prioritized for the coming releases based upon customer demand and scenarios".
Steven Martin has a good post:
BizTalk Server 2009 in which he says we're still on track for a first half of Calendar Year 2009 for the BTS 2009 release.
He also linked to a PressPass interview with Oliver Sharp who's the general manager of BizTalk Server:
Q&A: What’s Next for BizTalk Server.