SQL Server 2016 boasts new in-memory database capabilities that can make some workloads 30-100 times faster and support for encryption for data at rest, in memory, and on the wire. It also offers ...

Microsoft's SQL Server is making its way to Linux, arriving sometime by mid-2017. In the same vein, a private preview of the enterprise product on the open-source operating system is already.

I guess it makes sense, in a way. I don't see many shops signing up to admin Windows servers just to run SQL Server; if you're using SQL Server you were probably already a Windows shop to some ...