Last week the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was held in the USA. At this conference Microsoft gives an insight in the future of their products and ambitions.
Also news about BizTalk was presented. At least 2 new releases were announced:
BizTalk Server 2009 R2, with these features:
- Visual Studio 2010 support
- SQL Server 2008 R2 support
- Windows Server 2008 R2 support
- Enhanced designer tool for mappings
- FTPS adapter
- Performance tuning dashboard (to allow easy access to the BizTalk performance (latency) knobs)
- Improved support for event processing (used for RFID)
- Powershell scripts to automate management
- New System Center Operations Manager pack
BizTalk Server vNext, with this focus:
- Deep application platform alignment, including AppFabric (aka Dublin) and WF 4
- Enterprise connectivity for AppFabric
- On-premises Server and Cloud Service Symmetry
A video about the roadmap can be viewed here.
Want to know more about these exiting announcements, take a look here: