In a strategy shift, Microsoft now aims to roll out reporting services for the current SQL Server 2000 database release.
The original game plan had been to make the services, code-named Rosetta, available for Yukon, the next-generation SQL Server. That product is slated to go to beta this month and ship next year. (More on Yukon.). Yukon's timeframe has slipped partly due to Microsoft's continued security push, company executives have said.
Microsoft will now offer the services, which aim to bolster the database's ability to report on analytics, this year for SQL Server 2000, sources confirmed. The news will be announced Monday morning in Dallas at Tech Ed 2003 during a keynote by Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server Platform Division.
"We're accelerating the delivery of reporting services because [they are] ready to go. We have customers putting them into beta and some customers putting them into production," a Microsoft source said.
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