As covered by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its core, flagship relational database, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system. I also work for Datameer, ...

ORLANDO, Florida – Microsoft released the latest version of its SQL Server product across its home platform, Linux, and Docker-based systems. The launch marks the first time the computing giant has ...

Who would have thought that a few years ago? Microsoft is going to bring its SQL Server to Linux, in a move which would have been unthinkable a few years ago when Redmond dubbed the open source ...

To me, the biggest surprise announcement coming out of Microsoft's Connect() 2016 conference last week wasn't that Microsoft was joining the Linux Foundation. Instead, it was that SQL Server Next ...

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 is one ...

Remember when Steve Ballmer likened Linux to cancer, and the notion of Microsoft courting the open source crowd was virtually unimaginable? The company has come a long, long way since then. Microsoft ...

Microsoft continues to break down the barriers between Windows and everything else. The company said Monday it plans to release a version of SQL Server, one of its most successful business-software ...

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 ...

Microsoft can now hold out the promise to anyone who migrates: in a short time, you will be able to run SQL Server on Linux too. And there is much to be gained in terms of money. Further, given Oracle ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its SQL Server 2016 database system will be coming to the Linux platform. "This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server ...

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 ...