SQL Server 2012 Availability on amazon.com
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:50 PMWhen will SQL Server 2012 be available on amazon.com? Thanks.
Kalman Toth, SQL Server & Business Intelligence Training; SQL SERVER BEST PRACTICES
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Friday, January 27, 2012 4:28 PM
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Friday, January 27, 2012 5:42 PM
I was at the SQL group meeting yesterday in Microsoft NYC offices and the presenter MVP said that SQL Server 2012 will have an entirely new licensing fees structure.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:48 PM
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:52 PMAdditionally to the information provided by Tibor. There are some launch events at the end of February and at the beginning of March. So the official release should be somewhere around this dates.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:32 PM
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Monday, January 30, 2012 10:12 PM
The launch event can be very distant from the release date.
Tibor,
That would be most unfortunate. I think the SQL Server 2008 launch event was early because it was tied to the release of other products. Certainly was not the case for SQL Server 2005.
It appears that SQL Server 2012 launch is on its own merit.
Related article:
Microsoft Reveals Launch Date for Next-generation SQL Server 2012
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:09 AMJust for the sake of other readers of this thread, in case there is any confusion about release date for SQL Server 2012. This launch event is not neccesarily when the product will be released (RTM). The launch is a marketing activity and can happen months before RTM.
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Thursday, March 08, 2012 1:52 PM
Latest update:
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 RTM evaluation download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx
Article quote: "Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2012 has Released to Manufacturing (RTM), and that customers should expect general availability to start on April 1!!"
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- Edited by Kalman TothMicrosoft Community Contributor Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:26 PM
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