ESB (enterprise service bus) technology as a category of its own has been gaining increasing numbers of followers lately. Microsoft, however, isn't one of them, according to a position paper that the company recently published. Instead, the software giant is positioning its BizTalk Server integration and process server and its planned Indigo Web services technology as its solution in the ESB space, the paper states. Microsoft doesn't believe ESB is a stand-alone product category but "customers looking to purchase an ESB will find that Microsoft offers a significant superset of ESB functionality," the company said.
An ESB does not meet all the needs of users, said Scott Woodgate , group product manager in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft and a co-author of the position paper.
"We don't believe that customers will benefit significantly from the ESB products," Woodgate said in an interview on Wednesday afternoon.
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