Re: Microsoft to certify and support SUSE Linux !

Chester and the water hose blues band wrote:
"Chad Z. Hower" wrote in message >>

Microsoft .NET for Linux?
1) Mono

2) Rotor (Done by MS)

3) Lets talk again next year....


May be MSSQL for Linux?

that could be in their plans to compete with MySQL


Then they will have to give it away and open source it. Neither of which I see as a reality.

A free limited version maybe, like Oracle and IBM. Open source it? That would be the end of MS as we know it.


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