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

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros. It's possible to try the SQL Server 2022 public preview on ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

Microsoft continues to break down the barriers between Windows and everything else. The company said Monday it plans to release a version of SQL Server, one of its most successful business-software ...

Microsoft plans to release its SQL Server database management program for the Linux operating system, the latest in a series of moves by the Redmond technology company to make its traditional ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system? Today’s Microsoft is ...

Microsoft is porting SQL Server to Linux and is making a private preview of it available to testers today, March 7. Microsoft's plan is to make SQL Server generally available on Linux by mid-2017, ...