What's New on the Database, Application Development, and Web Roadmap

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

Major changes to the roadmap for Microsoft’s database, application development, and Web product lines since our last published issue (Mar. 2004) include the following:

The next major SQL Server release, formerly code-named Yukon and now called SQL Server 2005, has been delayed from 2004 to the first half of 2005
Visual Studio 2005 (formerly code-named Whidbey) and the .NET Framework 2.0 have been delayed to the first half of 2005 to ship concurrently with SQL Server 2005; Microsoft has announced new tools for source code control, bug tracking, application modeling, and load testing to be delivered with Visual Studio 2005
New product support life-cycle policies mean that SQL Server 2000 will be fully supported for at least two years after the release of SQL Server 2005, rather than until 2006 as originally planned
A planned integration of Content Management Server, Commerce Server, and BizTalk Server into a single e-business suite, code-named Jupiter, has been cancelled, but the products

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