Microsoft Brings SQL Server To Linux (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: The new Microsoft has place an increased importance on the cloud, and with other companies following suit, reliance on server solutions has increased. Today the company announces that it is bringing SQL Server to Linux. Both cloud and on-premises versions will be available, and the news has been welcomed by the likes of Red Hat and Canonical. Although the Linux port of SQL Server is not due to make an appearance until the middle of next year, a private preview version is being available to testers starting today. While the full launch of SQL Server for Linux is not due until the middle of 2017, SQL Server 2016 is expected to launch later this year.

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Re:Windows No Longer King at MS

[KGIII]

Yeah, I kind of figured but hadn't checked, thanks. I guess my question was hoping to be more specific - as in, how the hell did that happen? I could trace it back by going through all of their posts to find the beginning but that looks like work.

On the other hand, I'm not really sure what you have to do to get bad karma. I've even had people threaten (and then try) to vote down all of my comments. I have never once, nor will I ever, say something (or not say something) because of karma. Fuck that. If I've got something to say, I say it - if it's important enough for me to think it worth saying. I'll even stand up for (when it's justified) Microsoft - even though I'm certainly not using their OS to post this. I'll say bad things (when true) about Linux - even though I'm using it to post this.

WTF do you have to do to get bad karma? I get "off-topic" sometimes - and, indeed, I am. Hell, I'm off-topic right now. I'm off-topic more often than I am on-topic. If I am on-topic, it was probably by accident! Even still, nada... I'm not even sure if I could have bad karma?

Seeing as I'm this far off-topic... One of the confusing ones is "troll." Oh, don't get me wrong. I have been known to troll - strict definition only. That is, not just to be a jackass but to gather a response based on little effort and to cause meaningless outrage. More often than not, those get modded up. Yet, the insightful things (to me) get moderated troll. I don't mind, I really don't. What I do is find it confusing. I think it's just a knee-jerk thing and I'm in a position where I really don't have to worry about being thought trolling when I was actually just pointing out something (topical) that people don't want to hear. Meh, usually that gets fixed in short order.

Hmm... Come to think of it, I don't think I've really meandered off-topic for a while. Purely accidental, I assure you. Slashdot is my personal blog.