BizTalk Services CTP is Live!
I wrote vaguely at some past point, as did my friend Tomas, about these very promising "cloud" services that I had been seeing during the Indigo Orcas SDRs. I am extremely happy to see them out and announced. As I have said before, although there is a lot of very useful and cool WCF and WF stuff in Orcas, in my opinion, this is the biggest item of interest to me (its disconnected from Orcas BTW). The STS that I am very interested in, has become "BIzTalk Identity Services" and the Relay Service is now "BizTalk Connectivity Services". They also announced the ServiceBus and Workflow in the Clouds services that were demoed. John here talks about ESBs and their notion of an Internet Service Bus. Start here with John's post on the big picture and then Dennis's post on how to use them. Then head on over to http://labs.biztalk.net and check these out!
