For veteran database watchers, it may feel oddly early to hear talk of the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server database.
It seems like it was just yesterday that Microsoft was issuing one of the many mea culpas that marked the development of SQL Server 2005, as delays -- primarily to fix security issues -- caused the gestation period for that release to drag out for five long years.
But fast-forward two years from the belated shipment of SQL Server 2005, and it appears to be both a technical and financial success. And promises made by Microsoft executives that the company would get back onto a two-to-three-year release cycle for SQL Server look like they will be kept.
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