When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

In a move that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, Microsoft Corp. will port its Windows Server containers and SQL Server 2017 database management system to Red Hat Inc. Linux-based platforms ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...

I guess it makes sense, in a way. I don't see many shops signing up to admin Windows servers just to run SQL Server; if you're using SQL Server you were probably already a Windows shop to some degree.

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system? Today’s Microsoft is ...