Microsoft provided a revised product road map at Tech Ed 2003 on Monday, including a slip of its Yukon version of SQL Server until the second half of 2004.

During his opening keynote here, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server Platform Division, acknowledged the long-awaited Yukon version of SQL Server is slated for release in the second half of 2004.

"Yukon has been pushed a bit," Flessner told thousands gathered for the software giant's annual technology conference in Dallas, noting the public beta for Yukon, as first reported by CRN, would be available this summer.

Also as first reported by CRN, Microsoft officially announced Release Candidate 1 of Exchange 2003 as well as beta availability of BizTalk Server 2003, code-named Voyager.

Flessner also acknowledged that the company's planned Jupiter e-commerce suite of products including BizTalk would be delayed until 2005. That suite was originally expected to be available in 2004

While the Microsoft server executive alluded to several product delays, he earned a round of applause by announcing a major price cut on SQL Server Developers Edition to $49. That product is currently priced at $449, he said.