Microsoft will raise prices for SQL Server 2005 compared to SQL Server 2000, but SQL Server will continue to come in a free edition, a new low cost edition is being added and functionality ...

Organizations running SQL Server 2005 have less than a year before the product's lifecycle support will come to an end.

Microsoft has been beating the drum about the end of SQL Server 2005 for a while, and now the date is nearly here: April 12.