TechEd Keynote
If like me you were not there, here you can find the entire transcript of the introduction speech by by Paul Flessner Senior Vice President, Windows Server System Division
Some interesting stuff:
"...A couple other things on SQL Server: Our developer edition used to sell at $499. We're lowering the price to $49, announcing basically today, and that will be embedded -- (applause) -- thank you -- that will be embedded and picked up, we think, by other tools vendors. Borland has already announced that they'll be picking it up and shipping it with their C# development environment...."
"...Now, to build that what we wanted to provide were some very rich reporting services out to Kontoso's customers that they could use to run reports and share them within the organization. To do that we took advantage of SQL Server Reporting Services, which Paul just announced, to build a reporting Web site that we could take a look at here if we jump back to the administrator's workstation, go to the Kontoso extranet page and click here on View Reports.
And what this is going to bring up is the SQL Server Reporting Services homepage, where we can drill down and take a look at the reports that have been published, and if I click on Claims by Payer here, what's going to happen is the report will be rendered in my browser using SQL Reporting Services, so we didn't have to write any of this; we just simply built the report and deployed it. I've got a document map on the left-hand side here. I'll go ahead and close that and we can drill into this report so we can see the claims that have been submitted to Fabricam by supplier, and here we see the claim that I submitted earlier today for Joe White. I can click on this, drill through this report, and take a look at the details of that claim, all again within my browser.
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Finally SQL Reporting is on the way ! That's great news, so we don't have to wait for Yukon ;-)
"...So I'll go up to my project here, right-click, select Deploy, and now Visual Studio will automatically compile the solution for me and deploy it out to the reporting services engine, so I don't have to do any work beyond that deploy and we can see it's working here, it's now deploying each of the reports in my solution out to our report server. ..."
That's sound also very good. A step further in the integration of .Net and SQL !
"...I'm announcing one product in this space today, the Windows Storage Server. There are two versions of this product, a version available in a box that you can buy and another version that will be OEM and built into devices.
The Windows Storage Server is a server that provides storage services, advanced file and print, advanced distributed file system features, volume shadowing so that you can get good management and professional management of back-ups with incremental restore and that sort of thing, so a very specialized server really focused on managing data and the proliferation of data, supports I-SCSI so it's easily pluggable, again for the SAN kind of environment, so we're working very hard to make sure that the storage aspect of your information technology center, which is a huge investment going forward, will also be well cared for with the Windows Storage Server...."