But it turns out Katmai isn't just a SQL-Server-specific term. "Katmai" also is being used to refer to the next version of System Center Operations Manager, too.

Microsoft’s SQL Server evangelist Andrew Fryer, said in his blog that Kilimanjaro is really a set of business intelligence features that will eventually be integrated into SQL Server 2008.

In March, company officials also said that users who bought SQL Server would be able to use that license on either Windows Server or Linux, but didn't go so far as to say that the version of SQL ...

The ability to run SQL Server on Linux could make customers out of some companies that had ignored Windows, he said. Microsoft didn’t announce pricing details for the software’s Linux variant.