Microsoft delays SQL Server 2008 RTM to third quarter
Visual Studio 2008 went to manufacturing at the end of 2007. Windows Server 2008 is expected to be RTM’d in February. But SQL Server 564 2008 — the other of the three products Microsoft is slated to launch together on February 27, 2008, in a big corporate event in Los Angeles — is running further behind.
Microsoft officials last year said SQL Server 2008 would likely be released to manufacturing in the second quarter of 2008.
But in a blog post on January 25, SQL Server Director of Product Management Francois Ajenstat said that the new date for SQL Server 2008’s RTM is some time in the third quarter of this year.