Re: SQL Server on Linux

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:50:43 +0000
Message-ID: <CABe10sYkzFOrxFAjWzOaEbZDmd=YwmUQqxKugjgwdjgOAzA=Kw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Existing customers with SQL Server have a pretty compelling couple of competing cloud offerings already in AWS and Azure. Oracle (sorry Oracle folks on the list) really not so much. I suspect that this is part of MS going after Oracle (and AWS who are the clear leaders here).

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Dennis Williams < oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Many years ago I worked for a hardware vendor. There was always a struggle
> between the hardware folks who wanted our software to sell the hardware and
> we software folks who wanted to be able to sell our software to anyone.
>
> In this case it seems to me that Microsoft feels their future is in the
> cloud, not in selling Windows. But there are a lot of customers with large
> SQL Server databases that want to move them to the cloud.
>
> Dennis Williams
>
>
>

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