We really didn't do a big deal in December and wanted to highlight momentum and talk about the great integration with BizTalk Server, something our customers were asking for. They need e-commerce to be integrated with line of business applications.

Customers told us they wanted a next generation platform for building e- commerce solutions, one takes advantage of the latest in .NET technologies and integrates with backend applications. In hearing this, the Commerce Server team recognized that we are in a unique position to deliver this type of capability to customers because of our award-winning technologies like BizTalk Server and Visual Studio. Commerce Server 2006 enables customers to create comprehensive B2C and B2B sites, quickly connecting business partners, key applications, and end-users, therefore reducing the time to deployment and providing better insight into their e- commerce solutions.

Customers told us they wanted a next generation platform for building e-commerce solutions, one takes advantage of the latest in .NET technologies and integrates with backend applications. In hearing this, the Commerce Server team recognized that we are in a unique position to deliver this type of capability to customers because of our award-winning technologies like BizTalk Server and Visual Studio. Commerce Server 2006 enables customers to create comprehensive B2C and B2B sites, quickly connecting business partners, key applications, and end-users, therefore reducing the time to deployment and providing better insight into their e-commerce solutions.