Old BizTalk "rival"
Old BizTalk "rival"
In Israel, as far as I know, K2 is not considered a TRUE rival to BizTalk .
BUT...
- I have posted an old article about K2 - K2 - Business Process Management Solution Provider Improves Developer Productivity
- I came across this http://k2underground.com/blogs/howtok2/default.aspx , which for those who still want to know what I'm talking about , it would be nice to have a 2nd look
The point I'm saying is that if you'd have a 2nd glance at the application it looks like the State Machine from the Workflow Foundation.
now we know that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Extensions For Windows Workflow Foundation SDK V1 is out, and we know the BizTalk 2006 R2 have BUILTIN support for WCF, and we understand that at some stage WF would be able to be hosted under BizTalk in a very transparent way, BUT here comes the rival again, what would happen if good old faithful K2 would be able to do so as well BUT FOR LESS MONEY !?! ( which was by the way the "problem" last time )
Now we all know that Surprise! Oracle buys BEA Systems ,and Oracle does "SOA" and BEA and IBM and Microsoft and ...
And now what ? Power to the people ? bring the ability of Workflow Foundation to the masses with the knowledge that they can escalate to a Server/Company level using 3-4 mouse clicks or so ? ... well , why not , it just might be good for business , no ?
BTW , when I talk of "rival" i'm talking about decision of "what to buy to the company ? BizTalk or K2 ?" - not as a SOA Platform rival.