For the moment, SQL Server 2000's mainstream support -- which provides a variety of technical support options and free security and bug fixes -- is scheduled to expire Dec. 31, 2005.
"Companies facing support expiration of SQL Server 2000 next year would have less time to test and prepare for SQL Server 2005," he said. Depending on what Microsoft means by "the first half of 2005" -- its only hint of when it hopes to ship the new SQL Server -- the window may be as short as six months.
That's not long enough for the Gartner analysts, who recommended that companies "consider that SQL Server 2005 will not be proven for production enterprise applications until early 2006, following at least two product fix packs."
But it doesn't end there. There's more fallout from the SQL Server delay beyond problems for SA subscribers.
Because of the interdependency between many of Microsoft's ongoing products -- including SQL Server, the also-delayed Visual Studio .Net 2005, and the next-generation operating system code named Longhorn -- the slide of one, such as SQL Server, means that all slide in their schedules.
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