In a blog post published on Monday, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie - the company's Executive Vice President for Enterprise and Cloud - announced that the company is bringing its popular database software SQL Server to Linux operating system.
According to the disclosure by Guthrie, SQL Server - Microsoft's core, flagship relational database - will likely become available for the Linux operating system sometime in 2017.
The "preview" version of the SQL Server database software on Linux OS has been made available by Microsoft with effect from Monday, March 7; with the full release of the SQL Server for Linux planned for launch by around the second-half of 2017.
The announcement that SQL Server is coming to Linux underscores a highly noteworthy move by Microsoft, because it is for the first time that the company will enable the running of the SQL Server database software on a platform other than its own Windows OS. As such, the move underscores Microsoft's apparent efforts towards ensuring that the sale of its SQL Server database software is a higher priority than the sale of the operating system on which it runs.
In reference to Microsoft's decision to bring SQL Server to the Linux platform, Al Gillen -- IDC's VP of enterprise infrastructure -- said: "This gives customers choice and reduces the concerns for lock-in. We would expect this will also accelerate the overall adoption of SQL Server."
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