Nice post Dan and
it’s all true….wow what a roadmap from
there until here, or then until now.
Hope you’re all well and kicking goals like the Arsenal the Aussie
rugby team smile_eyeroll.

I thought you should know…..recently announced at the big BizTalk conference known
as the SOA and BPM conference at Redmond (put that in your wish list to attend – it
would be great!) was the next version of BizTalk – vNext code named ‘Oslo’ (…checking
the north wall…..kccck…clear!…..south….kccck…clear also).

Great to have a plan I reckon! So here’s the low down of it…..

Oslo will be:

– timeframe 2009+

– services enabled and model driven

– Have the following components (at this stage):

  1. Built on .NET V4.0 framework

  2. Server – deeply integrated with WF and WCF to host ‘stuff’

  3. Services – “BizTalk Services in the cloud stuff”

  4. Tools – vs.net “10”, app lifecycle

  5. Repository – common across management, tools + runtime to manage
    the ‘deployed’ bits.

MS
Public Oslo Document

What to do from here – not too much at the moment. It’s sort of a nice to know and
for those keen at heart go and check out http://labs.BizTalk.net where
the current offering is for BizTalk Services V1.0

Register and away you go! Brilliant.

Have fun!