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Last week Microsoft announced the next release of BizTalk Server, for now called 2010 R2. Charles Young already wrote an overview of the features and product positioning, but I highlight two: the support for Informix V11 (I’ve had this need more than once, and had to resort to ODBC as an alternative – it was even announced for BizTalk 2010 and ...

Following Tony Meleg’s presentation at Microsoft World Partner Conference, there’s a lot of discussion going on about the future of BizTalk Server. The following is a link to some pages with opinions about this issue: Microsoft’s middleware long term strategy by Benjamin Guinebertière Thread on Linkedin: Someone please explain to me how ...

The BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack is an add-on to BizTalk Server 2010 that allows BizTalk functionality to be invoked from Windows Azure’s Service Bus. The feature pack specifically includes “BizTalk Server 2010 AppFabric Connect for Services”, the feature that allows you to do this. You can read more about how it works on the BizTalk Server ...

Nine new 'How Do I' videos show how to get started writing for Azure Services Platform. Each video has about 10 minutes each. The videos include code snippets. Here's the list of the first set of videos: Windows AzureGet Started Developing on Windows Azure?Deploy a Windows Azure ApplicationStore Blobs in Windows Azure ...

This week I participated in the Architect Forum 2008 in Portugal. The event was all about Cloud Computing and the agenda had two sessions: Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform : What it is and when to use it, by David Chappell Windows Azure, Padrões de Arquitectura e Caso de Uso, by João Pedro Martins, José António Silva, Nuno Godinho ...