5 stars (SQL Server 2000) - Price was excellent and product was in stock. Used expedited shipping and received my boxed product very quickly. All instruction manuals, codes, etc. in tact. 5 stars (Really worth the money) - I have been fighting with "FREE" tools, and this is the best $44 dollar investment I could have made. It makes working with the (MSDE) Microsoft Desktop SQL Engine very quick. 5 stars (SQL does work on Windows XP) - This Devloper edition is running great on my Windows XP machine with SP2. I have no problems at all with it. It is feature rich and is restircted to a testing enviroment as opposed to a produciton enviroment. Well worth the money! If you need free, Microsoft has other SQL alternatives such as MSDE SQL desktop engine and a downloadble fully functional SQL Express 2005 verison of CTP (community Technology Preview) So many reasons to convert from Sybase there is not room here to list them. ... Microsoft :: microsoft :: sql :: server :: 2000 :: developer :: microsoft :: software :: development :: ides :: coding :: utilities :: microsoftsqlserver2000developer :: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer