<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">They are doing a number of things but they still are not the friend of linux they are advertising. But i think MSSQL on Linux is a good thing. i think more MS software available on Linux is a good thing. Just as long as they do not try to patent Linux software that is not theirs to patent.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Tom Roche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com" target="_blank">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Keith Smith[1]<br>
> Now [M$ is] in the open source DB game.<br>
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Umm ... no. Correct me where wrong, but all they've done is *port* SQL Server: they haven't released any of its code, it's just another proprietary DB (like Oracle) that runs on Linux.<br>
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FWIW, Tom Roche <<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>><br>
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