What a great event – BizTalk, BizTalk and more Biztalk.
It was great to see all those who attended and especially those from the user groups
(Sydney, Brisbane and Melb)
I personally had a great day – the weather was great. It was sunny, it hailed and
then in true fashion the sun was out again.
So this means that BizTalk 2006 R2 is now RTM – grab it from here
Scott (another BizTalk super hero) & I put together a great RFID Demo (I can say
*great* being not too bias).
Come 2am the morning before the launch Scott & I were wondering ‘was there going
to be a demo?’. In true show style it all came off on the day 🙂
I’ll blog about the demo shortly….it went down a treat
There were some great sessions (I wasn’t able to get to them as I was a ‘booth babe’
for the day).
The thing that I was most impressed about on the day……was the amount of
support from the Corp BizTalk team. Well done guys!!! 
The team had been on the road launching R2 in 3 world wide locations (in
Taipei they were treated almost like rock star status!).
We had Oliver Sharp (BizTalk PM) and major figures in his team – the guys were great
and always willing to lend an ear. (Some of them were off surfing at
Bondi the following day – that’s the way it’s done !! 🙂
In mentioning the team I can’t fail to mention MR. RFID of MS – Anush Kumar. What
a great genuine guy. He’s always got a brilliant story to tell around Microsoft
RFID Services. RFID, Integration, surfacing, WCF, BizTalk, BAM, TagEvent data – these
are all words he uses. This is a huge Microsoft story – and what the RFID team has
achieved it the last 3-4 years both on the hardware/software space is amazing. Standardising
readers (c.f. ODBC and ODBC drivers) and providing momentum to standards bodies on
various tags and their formats.
R2 here we come….time to update some VPCs.