Exchange will not switch storage to SQL Server
InternetNews | at | by Mike
While Microsoft has said the next version of its Exchange e-mail server will be incorporating a number of improvements, one change won't be the use of SQL Server as its storage engine.
Instead, when Exchange ships as part of the Office 2010 lineup, it will continue to use its existing Extensible Storage Engine database -- even though SQL Server has been tried and works just fine in that role.
"It was ultimately determined that the best way to ensure we could drive compelling innovation into Exchange for 2010 and beyond was to remain committed to ESE," Microsoft's Exchange team said in a blog post.