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 ...

The SQL Server 2022 public preview may be able to run on other Linux distros right now, Microsoft's document acknowledged. However, there are support implications for doing so, it warned.

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.

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Microsoft SQL Server is coming to Linux. Linux, created in the early 1990s by incredibly influential programming firebrand Linus Torvalds and further developed by a veritable army of volunteers ...

The public preview of SQL Server is now available to Linux and Windows users. The most important thing here is the fact that it's available for the open source operating systems.

Microsoft's plan is to make SQL Server generally available on Linux by mid-2017, said Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise business, in a blog post announcing the news.

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask of that old Lone Ranger, and you don't run Microsoft SQL Server on Linux (with apologies to the late Jim Croce).

Microsoft’s SQL Server is coming to Linux early next year as the company preps SQL Server 2016 for a late-2016 launch. Today, the company is previewing a SQL Server for Linux that features the ...

So SQL Server on Linux is still a pretty significant undertaking. And, given the caveats I've outlined here, it's not clear that undertaking will pay off for Redmond. But let's not get too granular.