Why the blog is of interest:

ESB is grabbing lots of attention lately in financial IT circles as a potentially hot new method of integrating disparate systems. But ESB stands for Enterprise Service Bus, not Enterprise Silver Bullet, points out Mohammad Akif, a Microsoft senior architect who supports strategic accounts throughout Canada.

Should Microsoft join the ranks of vendors now marketing “ESB-in-a-box”? Mohammed doesn’t think so.  In a blog entitled “No Spin Architecture," Mohammad shares his keen insights into ESBs, Vista and Office 2007 upgrades, the various flavors of .NET, and much more.

According to Mohammad, although Microsoft's BizTalk could definitely qualify as an ESB, “Microsoft does not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach and has so far resisted the pressure to name BizTalk or a variation of it as an ESB.”

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