The two pieces of software
have nothing in common, except that they both use the WF libraries.
- AppFabric is a set of services, one of which is to host WF workflows. The workflows themselves are plain low-level WF4 workflows. No special activities or adapters to other systems like Biztalk.
- BizTalk is a server product with rules, adapters to various systems, able to read various business process languages, define orchestrations at a high level,etc, etc
It's almost like comparing IL to LINQ. Yes, there is common ground but not much.