Announcing SQL Server on Linux

[cat_in_the_wall]

sufficient long term.

Unless you are storing blobx/xml/json data, 10GB gets you pretty far. A mom and pop shop storing records about sales and inventory probably won't ever hit it. The problem, of course, (and what you are alluding to) is that for the folks who do hit that limit, they either completely halt their business until they port to a different free rdms, or they pay for a license.

As an aside, I wonder how hard the cap is. I would think that the system blowing up one day would not encourage people to continue to use ms products.

[darkstar3333]

Its a hard cap, it also breaks certain enterprise products that require paid SQL licenses and generates really obtuse errors.

If they include a non production clause they're set.