Microsoft upgrades name as well features of BizTalk

InformationWeek | at | by Mike

Microsoft said Friday that it will rename the next release of BizTalk Server, due out in the first half of next year, to make it a full version release.

The seventh version of Microsoft's integration server was slated to be known as BizTalk Server 2006, Release 3, but when the code finally gets rolled out next year, it will be called BizTalk Server 2009.

BizTalk Server 2009 will have full support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. It will, for example, be able to run as a virtual machine in Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 machine, Kawasaki said.