Don't set your expecations on November 7th
Looking at about 1,000 posts from last week, rather a high percentage
of them say that SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 will be
released on November 7, 2005.
Maybe.
The actual press release reads as follows:
As part of the keynote address, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Server
Applications at Microsoft, showed the company’s continued momentum in
preparation for the launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005
and BizTalk Server 2006, and announced that these products will be
formally launched during the week of Nov. 7.
So that could mean 12:00 AM Redmond Standard Time on November 7th, or
it could be as late as 23:59 on the 11th. And even then its going to
take time for those bits to make it to all of the distribution points
that are needed. That said, I noticed that the Visual Studio
Connections runs that week. Humm, and there's an 8:00 AM keynote
scheduled for the 8th.
Make of that what you will...