<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Your Data, Any Place, Any Time</h3> <p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px" width="66%"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><font size="4"><strong>Trusted</strong></font></span><br />Run your most mission critical applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable platform. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><strong><font size="4">Productive</font></strong></span><br />Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure while streamlining development of data applications. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><font size="4"><strong>Intelligent</strong></font></span><br />Drive business intelligence throughout your organization. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="33%"> <div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/left_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/"><img alt="Ted Kummert, Vice President Data &amp; Storage Platform" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/spot/kummert.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><img alt="Watch the video: SQL Server Platform Vision" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="right" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><font size="2"><strong>Watch the video:</strong></font></a> SQL Server Platform Vision <br /></p> </div> <!-- <div> <p> <a href="/sql/2008/overviewdemo/"> <img src="/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" alt="Watch the SQL Server 2008 Overview Video" border="0" align="right" /> </a> <a href="/sql/2008/overviewdemo/">Watch the SQL Server 2008 Overview Video</a> </p> </div> --></td> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/right_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="tableHighlights"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <h4 class="highlights">SQL Server 2008 Solutions</h4> <ul class="orange"> <li><strong><font size="3">Business Intelligence</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable infrastructure that enables information technology to drive business intelligence throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it. <br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/bi.mspx">Learn more </a></li> <li><strong><font size="3">Data Warehousing</font></strong><br />Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive view of the business, by increasing the freshness of the data, incorporating all your systems, and validating the data while reducing the burden on your IT department. <br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/datawarehouse.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Online Transaction Processing</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/oltp.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Comprehensive Data Programmability</font></strong><br />Microsoft's Data Programmability platform provides developers with a comprehensive programming framework, web services and data connectivity technologies to efficiently access and manage disparate data.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/developer.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Server Consolidation</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 reduces hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution with enterprise-class manageability and performance.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/consolidate.mspx">Learn more</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>