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The position of SQL Server 2008 as a leader in the market of enterprise-wide database management systems (DBMS) was confirmed in a report released by Forrester Research on June 30, 2009 (The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009). In this report, Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna indicated that Microsoft along with Oracle and IBM DB2 were the leaders in the DBMS market. The report from Forrester Research indicated that Microsoft’s strong commitment to its data platform starting with SQL Server 2005 and continuing with the latest iteration of the product, SQL Server 2008, had boosted Microsoft to the top of the DBMS market. Key findings in the report concluded that Microsoft received high scores in database programmability, ...
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