When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella extolled his company’s love for Linux – an open source operating system it previously opposed – it would be natural to assume that commitment came with a few caveats.

Dat Microsoft steeds meer andere besturingssystemen en open source omarmt is geen geheim, maar niemand had verwacht dat Microsoft SQL Server uit zou gaan brengen voor Linux-distributies. Iets wat het ...

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft has reached out to federal agencies to test SQL Server 2016 for those using the Linux operating system. Microsoft has already reached out to government users to test out SQL for Linux, which ...

Microsoft announced that it has become the platinum member of the Linux Foundation — it will donate $500,000 annually toward advancement and development of open source projects. The announcement, made ...