This is first time Microsoft has divided the TECH-ED North America conference into 2 sections, Developer & IT-PRO . Why Attend Tech-ed? IT Pros, you'll gain new solutions and new ideas for being more productive from sessions, product assessments...
The subject say it all, as of today the mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 (SP4) and SQL Server 2005 (SP1) will be ended. That means for SQL Server 2005 service pack 1 there will not be any support and that can be obtained with a Custom Support agreement...