Comments on: Microsoft: No more five-year waits for SQL Server

Shake-up promises two-year release cycle with a hard rule: If a feature's not ready, it doesn't go in.

[SqlserverCode]

Good

5 years is really too long to wait in terms of releasing a product. They should have released something in 2003 with the new stuff except for CLR integration and other stuff. But then again DDL triggers etc etc wouldn't make it to that release. Right now there is just so much new stuff. If there was an intermediate release you would have an easier time to migrate

http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

[CA1900]

Ship it, ready or not?

"The Software Reengineering Initiative will ensure that releases ship every two years whether new features are ready or not."

They're going to ship you *something*, whether it's ready or not. That's so Microsoft, and so sad.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Comprehension problem

G Miller said "They're going to ship you *something*, whether it's ready or not."

The whole article is about how the features are going to be ready to ship or they miss that release. That's a far cry from the implication that they'll ship something that's not ready. They only way you could have missed that was by being unable to comprehend english.

[Bill Dautrive]

Very sad indeed

But on the other hand at least you don't have to listen to MS lies about how they are not overcharging you for underfeatured software. Now you know it is overpriced AND under-featured.