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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/06/07 14:02
Nuwan K (ckid@hotmail.com) writes:
> Like it or not SQL Server 2000 is a 7 year old product RDBMS now.
6½ to be precise. :-)
> "If its not broken doesn’t fix it" doesn't apply to most IT platforms
> these days, b'coz of the cost of running legacy/obsolete systems. Plus
> the cost of employing IT personnel
>
> So like it or no Microsoft is going to discontinue support for SQL
> Server 2000. Therefore your client’s got ~ 1 1/2 years to upgrade to SQL
> Server 2005. (Unless with Extended Support)
To be perfectly honest, I don't think is a very good argument for
upgrading to SQL 2005. It rather makes the argument "we can be on all
this update trains, so we wait for the next one". And Microsoft has
indicated that from now, it's a two-year release cycle for SQL Server.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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