Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, ... But the SQL Server team took over the Drawbridge code base and added it into the SQL OS layer.

When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how?. SQL Server ...

Bringing SQL Server to Linux is one of the bigger steps in Microsoft’s plan to help developers build any app for (and from) any platform. And despite the fact that it was only announced in ...

Microsoft's next version of SQL Server is available in public preview form for both Linux and Windows. Microsoft also is introducing SQL Server 2016 SP1.

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system?

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017, now with support for Linux, at its Ignite conference in Orlando. The company first announced its plans for the newest ...

Microsoft widened its embrace of the Linux kernel with a preview release this week of its next SQL Server, further extending its business analytics platform to run on open-source distributions.

SQL Server for Linux was announced in March of last year to widespread surprise. ... developers can now move applications to use Azure SQL Databases with no code changes and full compatibility.

On the surface, the announcement of SQL Server on Linux seems to be a simple sales strategy to increase revenue by carving out some competitive space from Oracle on Linux. But it goes deeper than that ...