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REDMOND, Wash., Nov 06, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Just three months after Microsoft Corp. released its data management and business intelligence platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, several large customers are using the database software to scale new heights in data warehousing and transaction processing. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) SQL Server 2008 gives companies the flexibility of “scaling up” individual servers by adding processors or memory and “scaling out” their databases by adding more nodes to increase performance. Microsoft is also taking advantage of the latest hardware advancements and announced this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008 that Windows Server 2008 R2 and the next release of SQL Server, code-named “Kilimanjaro,” will support more than 64 processor cores. This will provide customers with the option to consolidate data sources while maintaining similar or improved performance and scalab