Next-gen servers to take the stage at Tech Ed 2005

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

Microsoft's Tech Ed conference next week will be a showcase for a raft of new server products from the Redmond software giant that aren't quite soup yet.

While Microsoft is set to reveal its specific RTM (release-to-manufacturing) target dates for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 at the conference, neither product is ready to roll yet. The dates won't be "Dec. 32," as one source close to Microsoft quipped. Instead, they will be sometime this fall, much earlier than the "end of year 2005" targets most company watchers have been projecting.