Microsoft ready to pull trigger on BizTalk beta
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft 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.