Yet another BizTalk vs. "Dublin" post. Just some stream of consciousness after last year's PDC announcements and issues covered in recent SOA and Business Process event at Redmond. I'm still having a bit mixed feelings but decided to write some of them down. Microsoft is definitely going for more broader SOA portfolio with WCF, WF,...
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It has been an interesting year.  The economic turmoil has hit economies and is causing worldwide uncertainty. This can already be seen in integration projects - delays in decisions and reconsiderations of project scopes. It is not the easiest decision to invest in business process development when the uncertainty is affecting the...
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Microsoft - as well as everyone else today - is really investing to "the cloud". Whereas many are talking about Software as a Service (SaaS), Microsoft's idea is to provide a platform for Software + Services (S+S) -- indicating that running applications on-site and using hosted services are complementary, not contradictory...
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