Of CTP bits and South Africa- October 25, 2005 Several people have asked me whether there will be a build of BizTalk Server that works on the RTM bits of SQL Server and Visual Studio .NET for the Launch. That's the plan. It won't be beta 2 because we are still working on our quality metrics versus beta 2 however it will be pretty solid and if you are really lucky we will release it on November 7th. Indeed, we are hopeful that you might get both the BizTalk CTP and another CTP all on November 7th. More on that later. I'm...http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/10/25/484658.aspx Unofficial Abbreviation for Windows Workflow Foundation is now simply WF- October 13, 2005 Is it KFC or Kentucky Fried Chicken Well in that case legally it doesn't matter because the same company owns both the name and the abbreviation. Of course for marketing reasons they have swapped from the full-name to the abbreviation and back but that's another story. In the case of Windows Workflow Foundation we own the name Windows Workflow Foundation. However, we didn't trademark an abbreviation so there is no official abbreviation. Indeed we tried,...http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/10/13/480676.aspx What about BizTalk Indeed- October 10, 2005 Oliver Rist wrote a column in his blog titled "What about BizTalk" Historically I haven't responded to these types of articles, but that's what blogging is supposed to be for - expressing your opinions and this seemed like a good article to respond to so here we are. Starting at the beginning - I never really like the Michael Vaughan character on Alias. He kind of reminded of a secret agent for a certain European country and a Greenpeace incident in NZ a while back so I was happy to see him...http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/10/10/479331.aspx |