SQL Server 2008 to hit the Market on August 2008
It is official now! The long wait for SQL Server 2008 is over! At the Worldwide Partner Conference held in Houston on July 9, Bob Kelly, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Infrastructure Server Marketing, told the invited guests that SQL Server 2008 will be part of the price list for August 2008. Regarding pricing, he said that the new release will be priced the same as that of its earlier version SQL Server 2005. Microsoft had released the near-final Release Candidate (RC) 0 test build of SQL Server 2008 in early June this year.
Microsoft had actually ‘launched’ SQL Server 2008 in February 2008 itself, alongside Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, but they have not released it to the market yet. If no further delays occur, the SQL Server 2008 should be up for sale this August middle.