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Thu, Apr 8 2004 11:59 bradley

The site to order the BizTalk add on for SBS 2003 Premium customers

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Offer Now Available for
Small Business Server Customers

If you are a Small Business Server Premium Edition customer, you are qualified to receive one license of Microsoft© BizTalk™ Server 2004 Partner Edition with Microsoft Office InfoPath™ 2003 at no additional charge.

 http://microsoft.order-4.com/bts/

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# re: The site to order the BizTalk add on for SBS 2003 Premium customers

Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:41 PM by bradley

I have been awaiting the release of BizTalk 2004 for awhile now, especially since BizTalk Server 2004 comes with Visual Studio .NET and InfoPath licenses as well. Now that it is released and product fulfillment has setup the above web site for ordering the Partner Edition I am both disappointed and confused about what I found. When I went to order my copy (as I am both a SBS Premium Customer and Partner) I shook my head in disbelief to learn that InfoPath is included but VS.NET will not be. Please take a look at the following MS Press Release from Dec 17, 2003 titled "Microsoft Unveils Pricing and Packaging Details For BizTalk Server 2004"

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/dec03/12-17PricingBizTalk2004PR.asp

"All versions of BizTalk Server 2004 will include rights to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and InfoPath for installation on a desktop. Providing rights to these products will increase developers' productivity by enabling them to create applications directly in BizTalk Server and allow business users to gather and input information into a business process linked to back-end systems by BizTalk Server."

When Does All Versions NOT Mean All Versions ?

I believe this was a poor decision on the part of MS to not honour this Press Release.