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David Linthicum

Digital Government

New SQL Server 6.5 still serves only Windows NT environments

SQL Server 6.5 builds on an already-solid database server foundation. But it's still joined at the hip to Microsoft Windows NT and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and it still lacks support for Unix and other non-Microsoft operating systems. You can run it not just on Intel but on PowerPC, Alpha and Mips platforms--under NT, of course--in single and multiprocessing architectures.