Microsoft Struggles To Get Yukon Database Beta Out The Door 
By Barbara Darrow, CRN
Boston -- The clock is ticking on Yukon.
Microsoft has promised the first real beta of its next-generation database for the first half of the year. Depending on how first half is defined, that gives the company just over a month. Company sources said the push is on internally to deliver a beta drop by June 1, just in time for the company's TechEd conference in Dallas.