InfoWorld praised its smooth integration with other products and development tools and concluded that Microsoft Windows-based organisations should definitely consider upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.
To determine its database product of the year award, InfoWorld compared all the database products and server software that the magazine evaluated during 1998. Products included, represent companies such as Oracle, IBM and the biggest names in the database industry.
"This award acknowledges what we accomplished with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0," said David Sieff, product manager at Microsoft South Africa. "It provides companies with the enhanced scalability, availability and manageability they need to keep pace with an increasingly competitive global marketplace."
In its citation, the magazine said the product`s features make it an enterprise-level relational database server. "Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 integrates more smoothly with other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft`s Visual Studio development tools and its OLAP capabilities are solid," said InfoWorld.
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 was heralded by PC Week as the Best of Productivity and Best of Show at its Comdex launch in November. In South Africa it won Best Product at the Middle Market Accounting Software awards and in Australia, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 won the Database Product of the Year at the Australian Impact Awards. Information Week and Accounting Technology ranked it as one of the most important products of the year.
"Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 changes the way businesses can use and manage databases," Sieff said. "This powerful new product enables companies to easily deliver information to all levels of the organisation to facilitate better and faster business decisions."
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 provides new features for building, managing and using applications for line of business, business intelligence, electronic commerce and mobile computing. The database platform provides a rich range of support-including data transformation services, a meta data repository, enterprise management tools, replication services and a desktop database.
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