XBOX + BizTalk Services + CardSpace + Lego Robot =?

DotNetInterop — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:17:00 GMT

AniB posts about a demo that Justin Smith did with Kim Cameron at Digital ID World conference yesterday. It linked a Lego Mindstorms Robot to an XBOX controller, and included a digital identity based on an CardSpace InfoCard connected to the identity federation infrastructure within BizTalk Services. Check out Ani's story here.

Justin also did a broader session on BizTalk Services at the conference.

John Udell podcast on BizTalk Services

DotNetInterop — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:19:00 GMT

Channel9 has a podcast by John Udell on BizTalk Services. He interviews John Shewchuk on the thinking behind BizTalk Services and the new types of applications this kind of infrastructure can enable. Check it out!

"BizTalk Services" ISB debuts

DotNetInterop — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:38:00 GMT

This just in.... Microsoft has just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of BizTalk Services, a set of hosted services delivered via the Internet to help developers rapidly build and run composite applications at internet scale. At it's core, it is an Internet Service Bus.

With platform technologies including Windows Server, the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, and other so on, Microsoft has long been dedicated to delivering ever-broader application platform value to businesses that want to be able to buy+build+integrate their systems. The “BizTalk Services” ISB extends and complements the existing Microsoft platform to further advance the capability and productivity available to those businesses.

"BizTalk Services” is easily programmed through the familiar .NET Framework v3.0 and Visual Studio. In addition, the “BizTalk Services” capability is accessible through standard Internet and WS-* protocols making them fully interoperable with existing IT investments, and easy to use from a wide range of platforms.

Dino sez, check it out.

Oh, also, some other blogging attention:

John Shewchuk, the distinguished engineer at Microsoft who is heading the project for BizTalk Services, is blogging about the effort.
Dennis Pilarinos , another engineer on the team, has some insight into the internals.
Clemens Vasters chimes in with his view
Steven Martin also has some comments on the significance of this stuff
Vittorio Bertocci is excited about the P2P potential here.
David Lemphers, in Melbourne, weighs in, too.

eWeek did a story, too

All About Interop : BizTalkServices

XBOX + BizTalk Services + CardSpace + Lego Robot =?

John Udell podcast on BizTalk Services

"BizTalk Services" ISB debuts