{"id":6773,"date":"2007-11-17T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2007\/11\/17\/sql-server-2008-launch\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:51:31","slug":"sql-server-2008-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/sql-server-2008-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi – My name is Ram Ramanathan and I work in SQL Server marketing. One of the areas I am responsible for is the launch for SQL Server 2008 along with the help of lots of other folks in the SQL Server marketing team. Its going to be less than\u00a0105 days to our launch on 2\/27\/2008 in LA. I am\u00a0quite excited about this event – ITs going to be a global\u00a0experience with events around the world.\u00a0Launching with Windows Server and\u00a0VIsual enables us to provide you\u00a0with\u00a0a trusted platform for your infrastructure while enabling both IT Pros and Devs to provide solutions arounds Web,Virtualization and BI. (launch site<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Its going to be crazy for the next 105 days \ud83d\ude42 but I want to use this bog to provide some glimpses to all the madness, as we start getting ready for the launch.<\/p>\n

And remember that within few days – we will be releasing the next version of SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview(CTP )- November CTP. This has\u00a0over\u00a080% of all the features in the final release of the product. You can download the latest release from www.microsoft.com\/sql\/2008\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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