Microsoft no like Windows anymore? The IT giant has announced that it’s popular database software SQL Server would be coming to Linux & will be available sometime next year. This is the first time that Microsoft has let SQL Server run on a platform other than Windows — it’s a notable shift that means Microsoft is now prioritizing the sale of its database software over the sale of the operating system running beneath it.
Microsoft said on its blog that starting this Thursday at its ‘Data Driven’ event in New York, USA, it would “kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. “
For years, Microsoft built walls between its products and the rest of the industry. Now it is tearing them down.
Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, is known for creating business software that runs only on the Windows operating system. That has made it hard — or impossible — to buy something like a database from Microsoft without first buying Windows to run on a server….
Microsoft is bringing its database software to Linux – The Verge
http://news.google.com Mar 8, 2016
Microsoft’s popular database software SQL Server is coming to Linux and will be available sometime next year. This is the first time that Microsoft has let SQL Server run on a platform …
Microsoft is bringing SQL Server to Linux – TechCrunch
http://news.google.com Mar 7, 2016
SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Server …
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