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 ...

Yup, you read that right. Microsoft is making SQL Server, its popular Windows Server-based database, available for the open source Linux operating system. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

Microsoft plans to release its SQL Server database management program for the Linux operating system, the latest in a series of moves by the Redmond technology company to make its traditional ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

SQL Server on Linux? You're not dreaming. Here's what is important about this historic shift on Microsoft's part Pigs sure sprouted wings yesterday when Microsoft announced, without warning or preface ...

In a move that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, Microsoft Corp. will port its Windows Server containers and SQL Server 2017 database management system to Red Hat Inc. Linux-based platforms ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

In the rollup to a big wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 this Thursday, Microsoft announced today that it plans to bring its flagship relational database system to the open source Linux ...