Re: Microsoft to certify and support SUSE Linux !

Nathaniel L. Walker wrote:

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.


All things considered, if you actually compare IBM DB2 Express-C to
SQL Server Express Edition and Oracle Express, it is not Limited in any
sense of the word. And DB2 integration with Visual Studio makes MS
SQL Server integration looks like a weak hack.

- Nate.

I think you missed my point. Most people that are familiar with Linux are also familiar with mySQL and

Postgres. MySQL is not quite as powerful as MS-SQL Server (yet) but Postgres certainly is.

Neither of these cost you anything to deploy and both are open source. That was my point.

MS-SQL Server is not in the same league with Oracle nor DB/2 in large Enterprise fair,regardless of what MS wants you to think. :)

Neither are Postgres nor MySQL, but for small to mid-size markets all three can serve you well. Two are free and open source, one is not. That was the point I was making.

MS-SQL Server would not be a huge market for MS on Linux; I do not see how it could be, unless it were free and open source. It has too much competition on the Linux side, where the other databases,as mentioned, are free and open.


If SQL Server were to become a major market on Linux, as a proprietary and costly solution, then it could only mean that Windows would all but have lost server deployments and users who have been locked into SQL-Server, needed a solution to port to Linux.
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