MICROSOFT, with its upcoming "Yukon" and 64-bit "Liberty" variants of its SQL Server database, is looking to oust Unix as the platform of choice for the enterprise, a Microsoft official stressed during a keynote speech Wednesday at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit conference here.
The official, Gordon Mangione, corporate vice president of the Microsoft SQL Server team, also pledged that the company would continue supporting database versions for five years after release. Mangione noted the 709,000 transactions per minute score reached by SQL Server on a cluster of systems, based on the Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmark. "In a short time, we"ll start touching that on a single machine," he said.
SQL Server on Windows will surpass "proprietary" Unix servers on a single machine, Mangione said. "The investments we are making in this space, we are absolutely committed to," said Mangione. The company is committed to running databases with terabytes of information, he said. He cited an existing implementation of SQL Server supporting 26,000 users accessing a single instance of an SAP application. "It just shows you that with our software and with our corporate partners, we"re able to scale to meet the biggest needs of the biggest enterprises and do so in a cost-effective way," Mangione said.