BizTalk Server 2009

by | Sep 5, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Today, we announced updated plans for the next major version of BizTalk Server. We launched the first version of BizTalk Server back in 2000.  Eight years later, we’ve seen our installed base grow to 8,200 customers making it the most widely deployed solution for enterprise connectivity in heterogeneous environments. We’re hearing from our customers that BizTalk has become a core part of their infrastructure, running mission critical applications. Our partners (over 1500 of them) tell us that the applications and adapters they build for BizTalk have become a significant part of their business. This positive feedback is our greatest reward.


 


We’re excited to offer more details on the next version of BizTalk Server-now dubbed BizTalk Server 2009 to reflect the full release that it is. Initially, We disclosed this as BizTalk Server 2006 R3, but it has so many exciting new features that it deserves a to be referenced as a full release.  BizTalk Server 2009 will focus on a few key areas; as always, these areas are determined based on what customers have told us are their priorities. They are platform support, SOA and Web Services, B2B integration and developer productivity. In particular, the platform updates enable greater scalability and reliability, new Hyper-V virtualization support, and many advances in the latest developer tools.


 


I should also note that we’re still on track for the final release of BizTalk Server 2009 in 1H of CY2009. For all the features and details, go here or to PressPass.


 


We’ve actually already delivered a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) to select customers and we’re getting great feedback! The next CTP update is coming sometime in Q4 of CY08.  We’ll use this broad feedback from customers and partners to help us validate the features and readiness of the product.


 


Looking into the future, the goal is to continue to provide a BizTalk Server release approximately every two years, plus additional interim releases of service packs as appropriate.  At each milestone, we will take advantage of as much platform technology as is reasonable and consumable by our customers and will take advantage of updates to .NET, Visual Studio, Windows Server and SQL. 


 


We’re also hearing from many of our BizTalk customers that they’re beginning to accelerate the development of more complex composite applications. As you know, one of our missions with “Oslo” is to simplify the development/deployment/management of composite applications through a model-driven approach to the application lifecycle. We see our BizTalk customers benefitting from Oslo’s core technologies, and are committed to providing choice, flexibility and a clear integration path for those who are interested in taking advantage. 

Patrick Tisseghem passed away

by | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

On Wednesday evening my dear friend, our colleague and my mentor Patrick Tisseghem passed away. Words fall short to describe what Patrick meant for me, both in my professional and personal life. He was that kind of guy you could rely on, no matter what happened, always friendly and always helpful.


Patrick, it was a great privilege to know you and work with you. I can only join his close friend and colleague Karine, and say: you will last forever.


My thoughts go out to his wife, their two daughters and his family.


We will miss you pal.

"By the way, -We don’t use the term Breaking the firewall"

by | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

…“We prefer to use the term secure traversal through diverse network topologies, instead"
-Jon Flanders talking about the BizTalk Connectivity Services (Relay)

Thank you all for attending the BizTalk User Group meeting in Stockholm last night. I personally did not think I’d find REST as interesting as I did. And it was obvious I wasn’t the only one stunned by Jon Flanders awesome presentation. Anyone signed up for his book yet?

Thanks Jon, we hope to see you again next year.

Google chrome – First impressions

by | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Pros

  1. Love the tabs and the effective use of screen real-estate
  2. Startup performance is phenomenal 

Cons

  1. Bootstrapper installation makes for an unpleasant experience in the future reinstalls.
  2. As a developer I find it annoying that XML content types are not rendered within the browser window. Instead of a nice formatted view of your XML, you are presented with a blank page 🙁
  3. Lack of plugin support
  4. The fine print ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html )
    1. Google reserves the right to automatically update and install Chrome. (NOT too bad)
    2. Although you retain any copyrights to content you own and use in the browser, Google says it has a right to display some of your content, in conjunction with promoting its services.
    3. More Ads !!!

 

User Agent

" Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 " 

 

Acid2 Browser Test

www.webstandards.org/action/acid2

Google Chrome Acid2 test result
Reference rendering / Expected result

As expected the Acid2 test was passed, but I did find a funny bug when resizing the window on the test page. 🙁

Acid3 Browser Test

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Google Chrome Acid3 test result
Reference rendering / Expected result

Not a bad score for a BETA product…

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