Microsoft sets summer delivery of SQL Server

Microsoft said it will deliver its much-anticipated SQL Server 2005 database by next summer and pushed back the timing of a third beta testing program.

Earlier in the year, Microsoft delayed the delivery of SQL Server 2005, code-named Yukon, from the end of this year to the first half of 2005. On Monday, the company sent a letter to beta testers, saying a final product will be available next summer.

A third beta program, which had been scheduled for the end of this year, will now start in the first quarter of next year, Microsoft Senior Vice President Paul Flessner told beta testers in the letter. A widely available second beta program began in July.

To help customers and developers prepare for the third beta program, Microsoft released on Monday a Community Technical Preview of SQL Server 2005, which is an interim delivery between the second and third beta versions.

ie8 fix

What's Hot

Discussions

Shared

1. Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
2. Here comes Yahoo's own Web browser -- Axis
3. Apple's next invention: The iPen?
4. How Facebook's Zucked-up IPO just killed the tech bubble
5. Success! Space station snags SpaceX Dragon capsule
6. FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

1. Mac Pro petition gaining steam on Facebook

   69 comments

2. Apple tinkers with iPen stylus and haptic feedback

   58 comments

3. Android, iOS nab 82 percent of smartphone market in Q1

   50 comments

4. Facebook worst IPO flop of the decade, Bloomberg says

   50 comments

5. Kim DotCom case sees tears, claims of betrayal

   49 comments

RSS Feeds

Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.

• RSS

  Subscribe

• my Yahoo

  Add this Feed

• Google

  Add this Feed

• MSN

  Add this Feed

ie8 fix