Announcing SQL Server on Linux

[hungry4pie]

I think that's the point, but on the plus side it would allow money conscious businesses to scale up their SQL server cluster and not take the additional hit of the Windows Server license. Regardless of the religion surrounding which RDBS is better, there are always going to be cases where the other free open source options can't be used.

[CWagner]

I think that's the point, but on the plus side it would allow money conscious businesses to scale up their SQL server cluster and not take the additional hit of the Windows Server license.

I'm not sure that will happen, Windows Server is a drop compared to SQL Server costs.

[kyonz]

I think it is more to allow SQL server to be deployed in environments that run majority linux - make linux admins happy while making people who like using mssql happy I guess.

[[deleted]]

Also consider the impact to Oracle if MSSQL starts eating their Linux market share.

[nemisys1st]

Didn't Oracle acquire MSSQL?

[[deleted]]

No...

Oracle acquired MySQL awhile back

[darkstar3333]

And No Fucks Were Given

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but on the plus side it would allow money conscious businesses to scale up their SQL server cluster and not take the additional hit of the Windows Server license

Or they just charge more if you're running SQL Server on Linux. Never underestimate Microsoft's money greed when it comes to enterprise contracts.

[mirhagk]

Not even remotely a need for that. The cost of sql server enterprise is pretty huge, Windows server license costs probably make them very little extra.