BizTalk R2 beta released
ENT News | at | by Mike
People aren't talking much about RFID, which is indicative of the technology's slow growth curve. But Microsoft hopes that the second beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 changes all that.
Released earlier this week, BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, according to Steve Sloan, Microsoft's senior product manager for BizTalk Server. Up until now, he said, RFID has had a number of stumbling blocks to wide adoption, including price, integration and usability. "Readers and tags were prohibitively expensive, and there wasn't an ecosystem of [RFID] solution providers."