We've officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform.  As a part of this site, we've released our latest roadmap and product strategy around the next generation of ...

I just found this free course on MSDN, amongst others that are offered for free.  I am in the process of getting smarter on BizTalk 2006, so that I can understand it from an SOA perspective and have been looking for as many free resources to help me get there as I could find. If you are interested in understanding the basics of BizTalk 2006 ...

Pretty cool, there WILL be a solution for hosting Windows Workflow Foundation workflows in BizTalk Server 2006.  Paul Andrew has more details here. -Marc

In this post, Ronan Bradley gives Microsoft props for taking a sensible approach to ESB.  He writes ''What I found striking was how Microsoft, unlike some of the other major players, seems to understand that SOA requires a different view not only of architecture but also about middleware.  In particular, the “one stack to rule ...