Microsoft has been slow to get on the SOA bandwagon. But it is starting to make some progress as it readies its registry/repository. This new offering will be built on top of SQL server and will include a UDDI version 3 service registry. For Master Data Management (MDM) - single view of the customer, Microsoft will create an offering based on SQLServer. It also views Sharepoint as a focal point for MDM. It intends to build an entity data model to support its MDM strategy.

If you are interested in using BizTalk Server with the launch wave of 2008 products like the latest .NET Framework, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, you will need to wait just a little longer. BizTalk Server 2006 R3 will be following just after the 2008 wave of releases. This updated version of BizTalk Server will be designed for the latest versions of Windows Server, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server.

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Keith Pijanowski writes: In my previous SOA post I covered the UDDI Information model in a fair amount of detail. While describing the UDDI Information Model I stated that the UDDI specification standardizes two aspects of SOA Metadata. These two aspects are the Information model and the way that the information model is accessed and manipulated. In this post I want to cover this second aspect of UDDI which deals with accessing the UDDI Information Model.