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Microsoft is launching the long awaited SQL Server 2005 along with all the new schnick schnack BI components. The launch tour started on 7th November in San Francisco and goes around the world within the next two months. The fact that the product itself is not available yet is a minor imperfection considering that hundreds of “friendly customer implementations” worldwide have already taken place throughout 2005.
While everyone seems to recognise the new BI features, market experts seem to focus their contemplation around SQL Servers competitiveness versus the other OLTP/RDMBS players and the lethargy of SQL 2000 shops in replacing a working system (See Stephen Swoyer’s article on tdwi.org).
I believe the new BI components will have a far more changing effect on the market of established BI/CPM players such as Business Objects, Cognos or Hyperion than on the OLTP/RDBMS market.
The suite is quite complete and slashes the licence prices to a level where even the carpentry of the town with 25 employees can afford a proper Reporting System, Scorecard or Data Mining that until now was limited to very large organisations. The market gets bigger and the established players who can no longer hide in their cosy niche market are in urgent need of some creative brain stormings…

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