After a handful of rather controversial delays in the
I have a much more forgiving attitude. My experience is that most people seem to think that the SQL Server team has had five years to work on
But security aside, I’m very impressed that the SQL Server team has gotten as far as they have in the amount of time they’ve had. If you spend a moment looking at the list of features described at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/top30features.asp, you’ll see that Microsoft is pursuing no less than 30 very big features for the next release. That is a –huge– number of innovations for any single product, even one as versatile and popular as SQL Server.
Not only are the sheer number of features impressive, but they fall into very different categories:
This broad assortment of categories means that each team has to go in different directions to meet the needs of different audiences. Read – very different testing, customer validation, and intellectual capital needs.
Being in the software business myself, I know a little about shipping software. In fact, we’ve just announced the newest version of our SQL Server performance tuning tools (http://www.quest.com/news/show.asp?ContentId=1072&ContentTypeId=2&site=). I’ll talk about our Quest's newest SQL Server products in a future blog entry.
But for now, every time someone rolls their eyes about the SQL Server 2005 ship date, I stick up for the crew in
-Posted by Kevin Kline
Sympathy!
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