It is finally spring time in Minnesota. While the weather was cold we were busy working on the next issue of BizTalk Hotrod magazine. This issue has articles about EDI, AS2, Mapping Tips and Tricks, Business Rules, Naming conventions, Tools like BizTalk Terminator and BizTalkCop for Static Code Analysis for BizTalk.

BizTalk 2009 will be released in the next few weeks. This will be the sixth release of BizTalk. BizTalk already has over 8500 customers worldwide. BizTalk release will be followed by BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 and Enterprise Service Bus Guidance 2.0.

I want to thank Virtual TS's Andy Morrison (Digineer) and Brent Anderson (RBA Consulting) for helping with this issue. I also want to thank all the contributors for submitting their articles. If you have any suggestions for improvements or want to write in a future issue don't hesitate to contact me.