• Developer edition runs fine on Windows 7. Whether the Win 7 OS can do failover clustering is another matter, but that's the OS, not SQL.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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