Well no cabbages and no kings but...
I Moved recently to take up a Program Manager role within Microsoft's Connected Systems Division.
CSD has BizTalk as one of it's products and I'm running a technology adoption program for the Enterprise Applications Adapters that will be included in the next version of BizTalk server (2006). The TAP, as it is known is a great idea, where we supply customers with pre-release versions of the software and have them develop, build and deploy these bits into a live production environment. The customer gets direct support from the product group building the software and a huge opportunity to influence the final product. We as a product group get an opportunity to make sure we ship the best quality product we can by having the software running in a live environment before we ship the final product.
For BizTalk 2006 we will be shipping new adapters for Siebel, PeopleSoft, Tibco EMS and Rendezvous, JD Edwards One World and Enterprise One and Oracle at an ODBC level.
The great news for our customers is that these adapters are included with BizTalk server at no additional cost, and will I think, from the feedback so far, make a large impact for what we call "Enterprise" customers with the integration challenges they face.
