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 ...

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

The battle between Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) in the database market continues to intensify. Recently, Microsoft made an important announcement about making its SQL Server database available ...

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 ...

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 ...

As usual, Microsoft is late to the party. But this isn't like all the other times that came before In case you missed it, Microsoft made a bunch of Linux-related announcements recently. First, we ...

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Microsoft is introducing a limited-time offer under which users can get 30 percent off the traditional subscription price of SQL Server 2017 on Linux. The discount is good through June 30, 2018. To ...

Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this ...