Microsoft outlines (vaguely) its database road ahead
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Think every two to three years for a new SQL Server release. Expect a newly rebranded mobile version of SQL Server that will run on the Windows client. And watch for new tools tie-ins, according to the Redmond software giant.
Microsoft outlined in very broad strokes its long-term data storage vision on April 6 at a customer lunch in San Francisco.
Microsoft is rebranding its SQL Server Mobile Edition product as "SQL Server Everywhere," and is planning to release a first Community Technology Preview test build of a new version of that product in the summer of 2006, with final availability slated in some time in the second half of 2006. The new SQL Server Everywhere release will run on Windows CE, as does the current product, but also on Win32 and Win64 platforms.