As covered by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its core, flagship relational database, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system. I also work for Datameer, ...

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Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to release a version of its enterprise database product SQL Server 2016 for Linux. “Bringing SQL Server to Linux is another way we are making our products and new ...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was ...

Microsoft SQL Server, the company's flagship database software, has long been one of the company's most lucrative enterprise products, alongside its Windows Server operating system. Today, Microsoft ...

Microsoft, following its shock announcement this week that it will make a version of its back-office flagship SQL Server that runs on the open-source operating system Linux, is looking for government ...

Microsoft is releasing a public preview of the next version of its SQL Server database, which will work on Linux and Windows, both. Microsoft released a private preview of SQL Server for Linux in ...

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 ...

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask of that old Lone Ranger, and you don't run Microsoft SQL Server on Linux (with apologies to the late Jim Croce).

Last week was quite the week for Microsoft -- Visual Studio integration with Eclipse, and then the big announcement that SQL Server is coming to a Linux operating system near you shortly. The cool ...

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 was ...