[Stay Tuned]: BPEL, Windows Worflow Foundation and BizTalk
I have been involved in a couple of pretty good competitive bids in some public tenders recently and am thoroughly enjoying it. I have come head-to-head with the usual suspects of heavy hitters in the areas of collaboration, SOA / ESB and portal plays such as IBM, Oracle and the likes.
On another related note: Since I am in the compete space recently, I have been keeping watch on what is coming out of the standards body and I think that WS-BPEL (which was BPEL4WS ...) should have their specifications ready by next month (March 2007). Having said that, one of the points that will make Microsoft a even stronger challenger in the enterprise space is what I believe will come out of the pipelines next month is that the next version of _WF_ (CTP) will support BPEL 1.1.
Moving forward, I believe that the v.Next of Orcas will support BPEL 2.0 as well as BPEL 1.1 and that will be very important in the BizTalk roadmap as well.
