Microsoft
is looking for participants in entities with at least 1 DBA, more than
25 PCs, and SQL Server installations across their organization. As
part of SQL Server “Kilimanjaro”, they have announced baseline
investments for application and multi-server management. They are
recruiting customers to participate in a private CTP with SQL Server
Engineering. Registration for the Private CTP will take place until
December 15, 2008 and the 4-5 week Private CTP will begin in mid-January
Your SQL Server 2008 trial accounts includes:
Hyper-V Image
Reporting and Analysis Services
Integration Services
Full System Admin Rights
More details and sign up links can be fond here: http://www.sqlpass.org/hostedtrial/
See you in the cloud (or was that SkyNet) :-)
P.S. waiting for Jason Massie's comment how this is the beginning of the end for the DBA ;-)