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As I have written previously, convergence is a major theme in distributed computing. Darryl Taft (eWeek) recently wrote an article on the topic which was followed up by an article by Loraine Lawson (IT Business Edge). At Tech Ed, I did a quick video to
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Drum roll please….for those of you are as interested in the advent of cloud services, this is big. Today, we released BizTalk Services “R12” Community Technology Preview (CTP). Just as a refresher : “BizTalk Services” is the code-name for an incubation
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This week I returned to my home state of Texas to attend the Worldwide Partner Conference. Returning to my home state didn’t get me back to speaking in my southern-drawl, but it did get me speaking with partners about something we are both excited about.
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June has been an active month for the Business Process Alliance . In a recent post, I shared some thoughts on how several cutting edge technologies—SOA, modeling, SaaS and virtualization—are beginning to converge. Recent product announcements show that
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For those that missed it and those hungry to see it again - check out this video from TechEd IT Pro last week in Orlando. Greg Leake demo’d his .NET StockTrader 2.0 during Bob Muglia ’s keynote with industry partner, WS02, highlighting our commitment
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What a week! TechEd is always one of my favorite shows. Not just for learning, but also for the connection to developers- the heart that keeps the blood pumping. Just wanted to do a quick post to wrap up the show this week and a brief glance toward this
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Last year at TechEd we talked about deploying technologies in a blended way – both on premises and in the cloud. We also talked about a framework for thinking about which applications might benefit the most from the blended world. Specifically, applications
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I have two things to be excited about today. First, we’ve finally had some sunny spring days in Seattle (which means I had plenty of dry time outside this week). Second, there’s more great news about our B2B technology . Today, we’re announcing another
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For those that have managed to avoid the pitfall of SOA for SOA’s sake, composite applications are one of the biggest driving forces behind deployments. The reason for service enablement in the first place is so that you can compose them into new applications
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Over the past few months we’ve seen an incredible wave of new platform products and technologies including Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You may remember that in the past BizTalk Server has updated features
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This is a question I find myself asking my colleagues often. And they typically reply with something like, “Who's Greg?” or "Greg in accounting??". Not quite what I was getting at… Greg Leake is a guy who works for me in the Connected Systems Division.
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Today at the RFID Journal Live conference in Las Vegas, we announced Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile -a light weight application that works on mobile RFID devices, and will enable delivery of relevant information from these devices to central business process
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This week is an exciting one for Microsoft, particularly those of us who work on the Server & Tools Business—today we’re launching new versions of three cornerstone technologies—Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The theme
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We’re officially through day 2 of the SOA & Business Process Conference! For me it was great to hear all the hallway conversations between attendees doing real-world SOA today, and sharing tips for success. In fact, Day 2 was all about the ecosystem,
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With the first day, and the news on " Oslo " behind us, we took a few minutes to recap the day - video published here: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=352520
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