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  1. Scott, tell us what you do for Microsoft.
  2. What exactly entails worldwide technical readiness?
  3. BizTalk Server started quite a while ago. Can you tell us a little about what the thinking was or what problem were you trying to solve?
  4. How does BizTalk Server 2004 address some of the issues that users had trying to implement solutions with BizTalk Server, the original version?
  5. What are some of the message processing performance metrics that you've seen so far? How fast is BizTalk Server 2004 particularly compared to BizTalk Server 2000 or some of the other EAI tools available?
  6. You mentioned earlier the integration with web services. Can you tell us a little bit about web service orchestration and perhaps how BizTalk Server can be used or perhaps can't be used as an enterprise service bus?
  7. You mentioned a couple of times my personal favorite feature in BizTalk Server 2004, which is the business rules engine. Is there any chance that the business rules engine could ever be separated from BizTalk Server 2004 to be used in just standard .NET applications, has there been any talk about that at all?
  8. You mentioned BizTalk Server 2006. It was just announced that BizTalk Server 2006 would be launched with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 with a release to be sometime in the first part of 2006. Can you explain the difference between launched and released and when are we actually going to be able to buy BizTalk Server 2006 and deploy?
  9. Okay. Do you have any sort of timeframe for Betas and CTPs for BizTalk Server 2006?
  10. Okay, so you asked for the opportunity, here is your chance. In 30 minutes or less, tell us about BizTalk Server 2006 and the new features?
  11. You mentioned that BizTalk Server 2006 is going to deploy on the .NET 2.0 Framework. How will add-ons and adaptors that were written for 2004, which is on the 1.1 Framework, how will those integrate in BizTalk Server 2006?