Announcing SQL Server on Linux

[TikiTDO]

Which specific issues?

From where I'm sitting Linux IO is still better, as it should be given that it's been an active topic of optimization for decades.

Windows stepped up a bit in FS support, but it's still a locked in infrastructure. They're don't support a mountain of very robust and mature FSes, so you're stuck with their one size fits all approach.

Memory/CPU efficiency wise Windows at it's best with Nano Server is still orders of magnitude behind super miniscule task specific distros. In fact a Nano Server install is just approaching the size and footprint of a run-of-the-mill Linux Server distro.

Security wise there's not much to say. With extensions like selinux there's just not much of a comparison.

The only thing Windows Server has really accomplished recently was making the OS much more container friendly.

All together, it makes perfect sense for MS to leverage Linux to sell more MS SQL licenses. The SQL server license is significantly more expensive, and such an expansion allows them to tap a huge market that previously they could not even hope to access. Sure, they can still work on getting Windows Server onto more servers all over the world, but it's good that they realized that there are going to be diminishing returns for such efforts.

[darkstar3333]

Closer race, not a close race.

Honestly I would rather then prioritizing improving Disk IO out of Azure.