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All things related to pricing, licensing and business planning for Windows Server, Windows Azure, System Center and Forefront.
Enhancements to BizTalk B2B functionality
I have two things to be excited about today. First, we’ve finally had some sunny spring days in...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 05/01/2008
Composite Applications and Distributed "Service Networks"
For those that have managed to avoid the pitfall of SOA for SOA’s sake, composite applications are...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/28/2008
BizTalk Server Platform Updates
Over the past few months we’ve seen an incredible wave of new platform products and technologies...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/22/2008
Have you met Greg?
This is a question I find myself asking my colleagues often. And they typically reply with something...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/21/2008
Announcing…another new ‘edition’ to the BizTalk family
Today at the RFID Journal Live conference in Las Vegas, we announced Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/17/2008
Windows Server 2008 Interop and Performance Benchmark
This week is an exciting one for Microsoft, particularly those of us who work on the Server &...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 02/27/2008
SOA and Business Process Conference – Day 3 recap
With Day 3 behind us, and the fifth annual SOA & Business Process Conference coming to a close,...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 11/02/2007
SOA and Business Process Conference - Day 2 recap
We’re officially through day 2 of the SOA & Business Process Conference! For me it was great to...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 11/01/2007
SOA and Business Process Conference - Day 1 recap
With the first day, and the news on "Oslo" behind us, we took a few minutes to recap the day - video...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 10/31/2007
Taking Modeling Mainstream - It's Called "Oslo"
On the heels of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 launch, this morning we shared some news at the Microsoft...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 10/30/2007
Daylight Savings Time ends soon. Is BizTalk ready?
In February of this year Microsoft issued a patch to fix a time change issue in BizTalk Server. The...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 10/11/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Available today!
I’m thrilled to announce that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is available today! This marks the 5th major...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 09/10/2007
Microsoft's SOA and Business Process Pack incentive
Microsoft has a long history of taking hard problems and making them simple. Twenty years ago simple...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/27/2007
More information on .NET Stock Trader
We've had a ton of interest in the detail behind the .NET Stock Trader application. With both...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/27/2007
The legend of Zorro continues?
Possibly the funniest thing I have seen on a blog in a while... https://zorroisb.spaces.live.com/ Let...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/23/2007
Fact Check – IBM’s Steve Mills claims on MS and SOA
We saw an article on CNET that included quotes from Steve Mills of IBM directly related to Interop,...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/09/2007
You want Interop and Performance in Service-Oriented Applications?
When companies build custom solutions, they often believe they can get either performance and...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/07/2007
Microsoft's Annual SOA and Business Process Conference is open for registration
Last year's SOA and Business Process conference was our biggest yet! Customers, Partners, Press and...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 08/03/2007
News from WPC - New BizTalk SKUs!
Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, we announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2, is...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 07/02/2007
Messages from TechEd - Coexistence of Service Orientation, Pragmatism and Organizational Differentiation
At TechEd last week, we spent a lot of time talking to Developers and IT Managers regarding the...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 06/11/2007
Stretching the IT dollar through business process differentiation
Depending on which research study you read, 50% – 80% of IT budgets go to sustain existing efforts...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 06/07/2007
Have Services. Got Feedback?
On Tuesday April 24th, Microsoft will extend the incubation of BizTalk Services to developers...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/24/2007
Bike Trip gone bad…then good
First, a major disclosure – this is not "work" related, thus the tag "Life". As many people know,...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/09/2007
Partnering with Covast – phase 2
Almost immediately after shipping the first version of BizTalk Server, Microsoft and Covast forged a...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 04/09/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Beta 2 available today!
Today marks an important milestone for BizTalk Server customers and the BizTalk team – the release...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 03/29/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 Professionals’ Book available soon!
In addition to his day job as Principal Consultant in the Microsoft Professional Services...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 03/29/2007
Source Code Technology Holdings announces Beta of BlackPearl
Next week, March 26th to be precise, one of our partners in the Business Process Alliance will...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 03/23/2007
Even the Cobbler's kids can have shoes
We’ve all heard the anecdote about the Cobbler’s children having no shoes. What is less obvious is...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 03/13/2007
Taking BPM to the massess
Earlier this week, we announced the formation of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance. This...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 03/01/2007
SOA and Business Process made easy
I'll start of by talking about why I came to Microsoft. I didn't start out with .NET, in fact I...
Author: Steven B. Martin Date: 02/14/2007