First released in November 2009, Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric has just entered the beta 2 stage. The collection of application services includes the “Dublin” app server, “Velocity” caching technology, and .Net Services (the service bus and access control services).
According to Microsoft, the first beta release of AppFabric has been downloaded by more than 8,000 developers. The final release will become available in the third quarter of this year.