Is this a viable development scenario?

[norisk]

I am in the middle of developing an intranet for a customer. I've been developing in the Beta and am comfortable with the platform as being stable enough. What I would love to do is this:

* develop against your Beta servers
* as soon as the product is released, bring the customer online with a paying account

What I don't want to happen is:

* I develop against your Beta servers
* I have no way or no opportunity to move it to a live account

Will the Beta run until the Release ToMarketing version comes online on your servers?

Can wegracefully transition to the live serviers?

Will you be backing up the Beta servers?

Thanks,

Bill Ross
a satisfied customer

[Eric]

We will not be backing up the SQL 2008 beta servers. So if you have important stuff to keep, you will need to save all that stuff on your own computer.

We don't know when SQL 2008 will officially launch. We plan on launching SQL 2008 hosting as quickly as possible but we don't know if there will be any changes between RC0 and RTM. So far, no one that we speak to at Microsoftis budging and telling us any firm dates - we just hear that it will bea Q3 launch.

We will also not be migrating data from RC0 to RTM. This will be the customer's responsibility.

And who knows, there may be an RC1 coming. If so, I'm not sure if we'll wipe the beta box out and install RC1 or not. So if you have important work, make sure the backup your stuff continuously. We just have to play it by ear right now.

Eric
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