Should my new BI platform go up on sql server 2008 or 2005?

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steve - 08 Jul 2008 20:03 GMT

I am getting ready to implement the Microsoft Business Intelligence
platform, and am currently faced with the decision to go with 2005 or
2008. My release is planned for August of this year, which means I may
miss the official release of 2008 by a couple weeks or so. Looking for
advice on whether I should implement on 2005 or if 2008 is compelling
enough, and stable enough to move to right away. If I go 2005, I will
not plan to upgrade for at least a year, if not more.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
- Steve

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Bruce L-C [MVP] - 08 Jul 2008 20:24 GMT

Since you are going live prior to the release of 2008 then that would me you
are live on a pre-release version. 2008 has lots of good stuff in it.
Particularly with regards to charting. It is also much more scalable, faster
etc. RS 2008 can use a SQL Server 2005 for its metadata/object cache
storage. So you could at a later date upgrade just RS and leave the database
as 2005.

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

>I am getting ready to implement the Microsoft Business Intelligence
> platform, and am currently faced with the decision to go with 2005 or
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> Thanks,
> - Steve

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