Notable from Oliver Sharp, General Manager BizTalk Server:
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Low Latency messaging will be part of the Oslo project within BizTalk Server.
It will support both durable and non-durable messaging.
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“Let me be clear, the next version of BizTalk will support the existing customers
of BizTalk” which is to say there will be an upgrade path for existing applications.
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Both XLANG/s and WF engines will be supported on the Oslo release of BizTalk, conversion
will not be perfect, but there will be an attempt.
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XLANG/s will get modest investments, but WF will be where strategic investments are
made.
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The ISB is from its foundations is standards based.
Notable from Sam Guckenheimer, Group Product Planner Visual Studio Team System:
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Vista development will unequivocally better on Visual Studio 2008
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It will be available in a “short number of weeks” for download in trial and MSDN.
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Model based Architecture edition tools will be evolved into the Modeling tools and
repository in Oslo.
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Next version (Rosario)of TFS will include trace-ability from requirements to
binary, Oslo will then build on that.
Notable from Dino Chiesa, Director .NET Framework
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“Internet Service Bus” – Hosted service bus meant to enable reach outside the enterprise
firewall.
Just some notable quotes from the afternoon panel discussion.