A new approach to layers

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I am learning BizTalk at the moment, and I get to cringe a bit at the terminology Microsoft Official Curriculum uses. Shapes? Drag with the mouse? Am I back to drawing with the turtle in Logo?

I am heavily baised against this because of some bad experiances with trying to do complex stuff in SSIS, so anything that resembels Mouse Driven Development makes me very suspicous.

I got into an argument with the instructor about something he said (paraphrasing from Hebrew): "And BizTalk is on top of IIS." I immediately disagreed, so he opened mmc.exe and showed me:

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Very different terminology here... but he is right.