Brian Welcker (who is leaving SSRS team - good luck Brian!) has announced a long explanation of the Report Builder 2008 positioning. For me (and all of you who live in the multidimensional business...) the most important part of the post is this simple sentence: [...] However, for folks building reports against Analysis Services cubes, ...

Microsoft has severed the IIS dependency for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in the 2008 version, according to a couple sources. Reasons cited include : Deployment considerations (some enterprises prohibit IIS on database servers). Better configuration. Better resource management.  :{> Andy