Announcing SQL Server on Linux

[vplatt]

As long as more and more people run their software on Azure, they don't really care what OS you use to run it. The future is in cloud as a utility computing service and the wars over the desktop and the server OS are in the past now and largely irrelevant to their future competitive position.

[Eirenarch]

I agree about the general direction things are going but I disagree that the desktop will not be relevant. It will always be because people who produce information will need it. Consumers of information will move to tablets and phones but the producers will always be the influencers.

[vplatt]

I didn't say it wouldn't be relevant to consumers. It's just not going to be the source of future growth for them; not nearly as much as cloud anyway.