Thursday, October 27, 2005

BIG event in Microsoft-land

SQL Server 2005 has been released to manufacturing (along w/ several other major upgrades to existing Microsoft products).

While "Yukon" (as it's been called during development) has been coming for some time, this represents a HUGE step forward for Microsoft. All of their major server products, including my beloved Project Server, have been based on SQL Server 2000. While there have been a few service packs released over the years, the database product hasn't fundamentally changed in over 5 years, which is an eternity in the software biz.

We in the Microsoft partner community have seen most of the new SQL product, and it is a vast improvement. Look for lots of feature and functionality gains in most of Microsoft's enterprise products in the coming months as a result of this launch.

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