My good friend Simon says that Microsoft should make BizTalk free and while they are at it make sure they throw all the tools into VS.net
I do agree with him on the fact that BizTalk need to be set free to see the general adoption, However rather than having it fully integrated into the Visual Studio IDE we need something more in the vein of SQL Express. Eventually BizTalk Express will be one of the tools every developer will have in their toolkit.
The interesting aspect will be what parts of BizTalk will they integrate into Visual Studio.
UPDATE: Seeing as we now have a christened the product here is a fancy Logo, maybe even bumper stickers







June 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm |
Spot on dude and great name for the product.
June 3, 2008 at 10:11 pm |
I have posted a survey for people to register their interest in the idea of BizTalk Express at http://www.techavalanche.blogspot.com/
June 4, 2008 at 9:24 pm |
Thanks, now lets see what traction this idea can get
June 7, 2008 at 8:14 pm |
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