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REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) today announced it has been recognized by industry leaders for its data management and business intelligence offerings. iTNews, VARBusiness and Visual Studio Magazine rated Microsoft� SQL Server(TM) 2000 as the No. 1 data management platform in the industry. DM Review Magazine and Intelligent Enterprise Magazine each honored Microsoft for its affordable business intelligence solution.

SQL Server 2000 also offers customers built-in business intelligence including data mining; online analytical processing (OLAP); data warehousing; and extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities.

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