Have been trying out the BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID for the past 2 days, I find that it "could" be a very powerful engine. Well, there's still a lot of room for me to explore, and i'm still trying to make the sense of its existence yet (perhaps because it is something quite new, just like when BizTalk server was introduced back in year 2000). But that shouldn't stop your interest, if you would like to know more about it. So here it goes: What's in the package?
To get started, perhaps we'll need a little bit of clarification. Similar to BizTalk Services that i mentioned before, BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID is a stand-alone application, although it's packaged within BTS 2006 R2. That means, you do not need a BizTalk Server to start with! (And all the while I was trying to get a copy of BTS 2006 R2 just to test on its RFID 
) But, BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID can leverage on some features of BizTalk Server 2006, namely the powerful yet cryptic Business Rule Engine and Business Activity Monitoring.
So, without holding you back, view the end to end demo scenario, go download the trials (that means the BTS 2006 R2), look for the samples, case studies, try it out! If possible, get the RFID readers and some tags. There are a few low cost providers (will try to find Singapore based). But, should you not be able to get a reader, that shouldn't stop you, as using the RFID Manager, you can simulate a RFID reader. Cool huh!
I'll post a few more of it later on. I'll need to re-composing my thoughts first. :)