OfficeWriter functionality could be included in Katmai
It's time for our own press release now, thank you!
In the link below, you'll see that today Jeff Raikes will announce that we are acquiring OfficeWriter from SoftArtisans - This is a huge win for folks who want to render reports to Word and/or use the lighter-weight Excel rendering extension SoftArtisans has created:
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-09BINewDayPR.mspx
Also, a cool new Katmai informational site just came online:
https://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx
Edit: 13:05 5-May: Based on feedback from Chris Baldwin I am changing the title of this post from "OfficeWriter functionality will be included in Katmai" to "OfficeWriter functionality could be included in Katmai". Although the acquisition is complete, getting the technology into Katmai is not yet a done deal timeline-wise.
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- Anonymous
May 09, 2007
Microsoft’s Jeff Raikes today confirmed the popular suspicion that Katmai, the next version of SQL Server, will ship in 2008. Feature details are sparse, but one interesting aspect is that Microsoft is acquiring SoftArtisans Inc.’s O...