EBS 2008 Premium Edition comes with a SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition. Can I exercise my downgrade rights and run earlier versions of SQL Server to run legacy applications?
A. No. Components of the Windows Essential Business Server solution cannot be separated. However Microsoft recognizes that Line of Business applications may experience compatibility issues moving from one version to the next, so till 12/31/2009, we will ship SQL Server 2005 Standard (both 32- and 64-bit platforms) in addition to the SQL Server 2008 Standard for the customer’s use in order to address these potential issues.Note that once we stop shipping both versions of SQL Server, customers may not downgrade components of the Windows Essential Business Server solution and therefore are restricted from downgrading just the SQL Server component. Our downgrade rights specify that if you downgrade, you must downgrade all the component parts of the server software. However, the customers who received SQL Server 2005 Standard with their EBS 2008 Premium can continue to use it after the shipping period ends, but they may not use both SQL Server 2005 Standard and SQL Server 2008 Standard simu
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