A icon of the business intelligence industry for Microsoft has now left the company to take a CTO role at Visible Technology. Bill has been with the SQL Server team or with in a BI role since 1996. I will truly miss Bill in the community, as he was a BI pillar and his departure to work for his new great opportunity will leave a large gap inside of Microsoft. To show the gap that he will leave, when he left the Microsoft SQL Server team after SQL Server 2005 to go to the office group, a large segment of the SQL Server team left to join him and it caused a domino effect.

We'll miss you Bill!