Foreword

Happy Birthday, BizTalk!

By the time you're reading this in a bookstore, BizTalk will have celebrated its tenth birthday. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft's enterprise integration server, and it has become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology in the industry, with over 10,000 customers worldwide. BizTalk as a product line has matured tremendously during this period, expanding beyond its simple roots in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to add in capabilities around business-to-business integration, business rules, business activity monitoring, legacy integration, RFID event processing, and more.

But why does middleware like this have such staying power? You'd think that newer ...

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