Microsoft Confirms SQL Server 2008 R2's May due date
SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will come in a number of new flavors, including a Datacenter edition and a Parallel Data Warehouse edition.
On January 19, Microsoft made it officially official. Microsoft is
confirming that the latest version of its database will be out “by May”
and will be on the May price list. A new posting on the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog confirmed the May date. According to that blog, there have been 150,000 downloads by testers of the R2 release.
SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will come in a number of new flavors, including a Datacenter edition and a Parallel Data Warehouse edition (formerly codenamed “Project Madison”). The Datacenter edition builds on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise product, but adds application and multi-server management; virtualization; high-scale complex event processing (via StreamInsight); and supports more than 8 processors and up to 256 logical processors.
The Parallel Data Warehouse version will be sold preloaded on servers as a data warehouse appliance. Using the DataAllegro technology Microsoft acquired in 2008, it will scale customers’ data warehouses from the tens of terabytes, up to one petabyte plus range, according to the company.
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