I  just wanted to point out a couple of interesting adapters that our partners are providing for BizTalk 2006.

Zouak consulting is providing a beta version of an adapter for integrating with RIM's Blackberry. You can find info about it at.

http://www.zouak.com/Products.aspx

Another partner, TwoConnect, has put together a full feature adapter for Salesforce.com's CRM solution. You can find info for it at.

http://www.twoconnect.com/pages/product_solutions/salesforce.aspx

Now I was fortunate enough to be able to talk with someone in our services division that has already used the salesforce adapter. He was in a great position to speak about the value of the adapter as he had also used the standard salesforce.com web services.  He felt that using the adapter saved him about 2-3 weeks of development time over using the base web services interface. Now 2-3 weeks is a fair bit of time, so it seems like TwoConnect is providing a fairly valuable and affordable adapter here.

Cheers and keep on BizTalking