{"id":9006,"date":"2008-01-31T11:37:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"sql-2008-launch-vs-rtm-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9006","title":{"rendered":"SQL 2008 Launch VS RTM Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have already received notification of a big launch in your local area for Windows Server 2008, Vistual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008.\u00a0 VS 2008 is RTM&#8217;ing right around now and W2008 RTM&#8217;s pretty soon.\u00a0 However, SQL 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/dataplatforminsider\/archive\/2008\/01\/25\/microsoft-sql-server-2008-roadmap-clarification.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">will not RTM until Q3, 2008<\/a>.\u00a0 MS are holding onto it so they can get it <em>right<\/em>.\u00a0 Fair play to them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to fall into the trap of release now no matter what.\u00a0 They held on with W2003 and produced what was their best Server release yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have already received notification of a big launch in your local area for Windows Server 2008, Vistual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008.\u00a0 VS 2008 is RTM&#8217;ing right around now and W2008 RTM&#8217;s pretty soon.\u00a0 However, SQL 2008 will not RTM until Q3, 2008.\u00a0 MS are holding onto it so they can get it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SQL 2008 Launch VS RTM Dates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You might have already received notification of a big launch in your local area for Windows Server 2008, Vistual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008. 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