Now that it has missed its own launch party, only the bravest would stake their reputations on when SQL Server 2008 will actually be with us. But even when it starts to ship, widespread adoption is likely to take years. There are still substantial numbers of SQL Server 2000 installations and even SQL Server 7 users still happily chugging along with a product released nearly ten years ago.
Analyst firm IDC has revealed that contrary to hitherto negative publicity, the Intel Itanium processor-based server market is now entering a strong growth phase.
Intel is expected to use next week’s Intel Developer Forum to announce production of Dempsey, the first major Xeon server chip to use dual processing cores.
Virtualisation will be one of the big themes at next week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, along with the growing challenge of how to cool servers.
Worldwide server shipments increased 12.7% over the past year, with Hewlett-Packard the leading supplier by market share, research from industry analyst Gartner reveals.