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Re: [LUG] OT: SQL Server

 

Hmm... it looks like we're not getting quite the full-fat edition:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/11/sql_server_linux_2017/


-----Original Message-----
From: list [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martijn Grooten
Sent: 10 March 2016 13:49
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: SQL Server

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:38:05PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> It's offtopic, its not free software, but I'm checking the date on the 
> article carefully. Not April yet.
> 
> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-l
> inux/

Why, it makes perfect sense to me.

Microsoft doesn't have anything close to a monopoly on the server market, so this is 
a sound business decision.

As for Office for Linux, they would have have done that long ago if it wasn't for 
the fact that a) the Linux Desktop market is very small b) said market is mostly 
populated by people who wouldn't use MS products anyway and c) Office 365 appears to 
work well on Linux.

Martijn.


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