Microsoft ready to pull trigger on BizTalk beta
Microsoft Corp. will release the first beta of BizTalk Server 2006 in the next two weeks, a Microsoft product manager said Monday.
Microsoft had targeted summer 2005 as the time frame for the beta, and Steven Martin, group product manager for the business process and integration division, confirmed to the IDG News Service Monday that the beta would be ready within two weeks.
However, there has been some confusion over the actual release date of BizTalk Server 2006, the next version of Microsoft's business process and Web services integration software. Though some published reports have said BizTalk Server 2006 would ship upon its scheduled launch on Nov. 7, Martin said it actually will not be available until the first quarter of 2006.
Microsoft is launching BizTalk Server 2006 alongside SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, both of which are expected to be ready for shipment at the Nov. 7 launch in San Francisco.
Though Microsoft never said it would actually ship BizTalk at the same time as the new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio, launching it along with other products that will be available immediately caused some confusion, said one Microsoft partner and regional director.
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