'Yukon' enters beta territory
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
At long last, Microsoft is providing testers with its next-generation SQL Server code. To testers who've been awaiting Microsoft's first beta release of its next version of its SQL Server database: The wait is over. Microsoft on Tuesday released the first "private beta" of "Yukon" to 500 customers and partners. Microsoft will release the beta to another 1,500 testers by the end of the month. The company is making the bits available via its BetaPlace Web site.
Said one tester: "The Beta 1 release is being done in two phases over the next few weeks. In the first phase, the "priority" members of the beta group will get access. Within a few weeks, everyone (approved for the Beta) will have it." Another tester said all of the approved Beta 1 testers should have code in hand by August 1.