Microsoft Announces SQL Server 2000
M. Reed - December 15, 1999

Event Summary

'REDMOND, Wash. - Dec. 13, 1999 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that the next major release of Microsoft« SQL ServerÖ, currently code-named 'Shiloh,' would officially be named SQL Server 2000. Microsoft also revealed the features within SQL Server 2000 that will take advantage of the Microsoft Windows« 2000 operating system, as well as the ways SQL Server 7.0 customers today can reap benefits from Windows 2000. SQL Server 2000 is due to ship in the first half of 2000. Already in beta testing with nearly 750 companies, SQL Server 2000 makes optimal use of new features and capabilities of Windows 2000 to offer dramatic improvements in the areas of scalability, reliability and manageability.' SQL Server 2000 is an integral part of Windows DNA 2000. According to Tod Nielsen, vice president of marketing for the Developer Group at Microsoft, 'SQL Server 2000, with its deep integration with Windows 2000 and the rest of the Windows DNA 2000 platform, will offer the fastest time to market and be the most flexible and manageable database for building the Business Internet.'..