Short Take: Industry group backs BizTalk

XML industry consortium the Open Applications Group said it will make its blueprints for XML compatible with Microsoft's BizTalk Framework. The blueprints are a way for specific industries, such as travel and finance, to exchange information using XML, a new Web standard. BizTalk is a Microsoft effort to create XML blueprints. Members of the Open Applications Group include AT&T, Compaq, and Oracle.

Jan. 2, 2002 4:43 p.m. PT

XML industry consortium the said it will make its blueprints for XML compatible with Microsoft's BizTalk Framework. The blueprints are a way for specific industries, such as travel and finance, to exchange information using XML, a new Web standard. BizTalk is a Microsoft effort to create XML blueprints. Members of the Open Applications Group include AT&T, Compaq, and Oracle.