My company is planning on using a datacenter for our customers. These are manufacturing plants from which we collect batch and trend data (currently stored in SQL Server)
If we move to a centralized database model we may need Load Balancing. I read that SQL 2005 will accommodate this so I called MS Support and no one could confirm this.
My dilemma is that I need to report upon what our options are for the datacenter. So I need to know if load balancing will be an offering of SQL 2005.

Load Balance Clustering on 2005?
EvilMonkeySlayer
Benny Samuelsson
KirkHaselden
Hi Dave -
Yep, that one
Was it really that long ago
Don (DonV)
RaminRow
Salam
Network Load-balancing in Windows works well with multiple read-only servers each containing the same data, but this is not provided directly by SQL Server.
SQL Server 2005 has several features that provide increased scalability (table partitioning, SQL Server Service Broker, XML indexes, query notifications, CLR stored procedures, and others), enhancing the scale-up abilities and further reducing the need for such load-balancing capabilities, but no, load-balancing is not provided.
Don