Business Process Integration and Workflow

Transaction in a service Oriented Architecture stays a hot topic in the article of Jon you find some guidance in the problems it creates and how new transaction protocols will support this.

Transaction Processing in Distributed Service-Oriented Applications
The ACID transaction model has served the industry well in the past, but Jon Maron points out that it has some major drawbacks when applied to the loosely coupled service domain.
Transaction in a service Oriented Architecture stays a hot topic in the article of Jon you find some guidance in the problems it creates and how new transaction protocols will support this.

Scott's book, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed, has been released, at least you can order it already I didn't receive yet my copy but I'll hope to receive it soon. To get a glimpse on how it is build up you can read already a sample chapter about Building Message Specifications (=BizTalk Editor) and if the whole book will be of this quality it's promissing.
Not that a earn any money with it but it's a book every BizTalk Server fan should have a copy of.

It's time to spend some evenings with the upcoming SQL Server 2005 Webcasts. I remember the webcasts concerning BizTalk server 2004 and they were a very reliable source of information so expect no less from the SQL Server 2005 Webcasts.
Check them out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/training/webcasts/#SQL2005

Great whitepaper from David Chappell here, that places BizTalk towards what BPM servers should consist of. A must for every architect that needs to defend the use of BizTalk.