Mitchell Ashley talks with interesting people about interesting topics in the world of Microsoft.

BizTalk Server was in the news this week with Microsoft's announcement it will continue BizTalk development and release BizTalk Server 2009 early next year. Every enterprise deals will very difficult integration issues and BizTalk provides the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), or the message bus, that allows disparate systems and databases to communicate and integrate with each other. In this podcast, Technetronic Solutions CTO and BizTalk expert Donald Lutz joins us to explain how BizTalk works, how to download and learn to use BizTalk Server (recommended book: Professional BizTalk Server 2006), why Microsoft chose to bring out BizTalk Server 2009 rather than wait for the much touted Oslo technologies, why BizTalk isn't used in more Web 2.0 applications, cloud based Microsoft BizTalk Services, and what the future holds for BizTalk Server and Oslo. (24:13)
Music by Michael Reese
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