The week of 7 November 2005
Yes, it is now public, the week of 7th November 2005 will be the launch of SQL Server 2005 (with Visual Studio .NET 2005).
5 Months of beta testing......and with the June 2005 CTP of SQL Server 2005 on MSDN and Betaplace, if we don't find the bugs now....we have to live with them in production.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/misc/06-07flessner-teched05.mspx