Q: (from Sudhir)
kb843578 discussed how the Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS was required on the SQL Server for Sharepoint 2.0. Has that changed in WSS 3.0?
A:
From the TechNet documentation found at: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/396c85d9-4b86-484e-9cc5-f6c4d725c5781033.mspx?mfr=true
Under “Office SharePoint Server 2007”, under “Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007”, under “Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment”, under “Pre-install Databases”
“All of the databases required by Office SharePoint Server 2007 use the Latin_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation.”
So it looks like the answer is “no” the requirements have not changed.