Microsoft said it will extend the mobile version of its flagship SQL Server database to run on all its Windows versions.

SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, which currently works on small handheld devices that run the Windows CE and Windows Tablet systems, will in the future be able to run on all versions of Windows, including 32- and 64-bit operating systems such as Vista. The database will also be renamed SQL Server Everywhere Edition. It can be embedded into local applications -- for longer-lasting data storage than caching solutions typically provide -- and exchange data with server versions of SQL Server.

Available for a free license to users, SQL Server Everywhere will help CIOs get a handle on what Flessner called an "explosion" of data, including multimedia and XML data, outside of the data center, enabled by smarter hardware and cheaper memory and storage.

Microsoft also said it is gathering the high-availability features in SQL Server, such as mirroring and fail-over clustering, under the new umbrella name, AlwaysOn Technologies.


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