Microsoft has made it public that this software will be available by May 2010. This is the product that works best with the Azure platform besides being feature rich otherwise.
The key benefits as advertised are,
A trusted and scalable platform
IT & Productivity- Improved virtualization support
Managed self-servie BI -Integration with Excel
It is still in Preview (SQL Server 2008 R2 Nov-CTP).
More resources here(including Books On Line-BOL)
Also read installation posts here:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-installingupgrading-sql-server-2008.html
http://www.packtpub.com/article/microsoft-sql-server-2008-installation-made-easy
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/11/sql-server-2008-r2-nov-ctp-installs.html
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