The future of Windows 2000 (Win2K) and SQL Server has "Intel Inside" written all over it. On August 23, Compaq announced that it was dropping Alpha support for the current 32-bit version of Windows NT, and that Linux and OpenVMS would become the main operating systems for the Alpha. At first, this announcement left an open door for Alpha on 64-bit Windows 2000. However, soon after the Compaq announcement, Microsoft stated that it plann...