Microsoft takes on Oracle, opening up database software to Linux
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Microsoft (MSFT) Announces SQL Server on Linux
March 8, 2016 8:29 AM ESTMicrosoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) posted the following to its official blog on Monday night:
Its been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. This is the most significant release of SQL Server that we have ever done, and brings with it some fantastic new capabilities.... More

