Jame Healy

.NETDJ Guest Editor Jame Healy recently interviewed Microsoft's Scott Woodgate, lead product manager for Microsoft's E-Business Servers group. In this exclusive interview, Woodgate talks about the history of BizTalk Server, the process of developing a new BizTalk Server version, and bridging the gap between developers and business analysts. .NETDJ: Scott, tell me a little bit about yourself. How did you get where you are now - working at Microsoft and within such an exciting team? SW: I guess you could say I have taken a somewhat unorthodox path to Microsoft. To be honest, the real reason I came to Seattle was not for Microsoft, but because I had a passion for a woman, now my wife, who was coming here to get her PhD in finance. At that time my secondary passion was building software, and Microsoft's diversity fit my equally diverse background pretty well. Prior to co... (more)