Not paranoid, just an early warning that the Linux community is being taken over by Microsoft and you get charged in the next few years for using Linux.
I don't see how that is possible. Linux is open source. Even if MS manages to take over a distribution and add proprietary binaries to it will probably end like everything else they take over. Look at Nokia for an example.
I see a pattern here. They are trying to take over Linux from within. That effort into the Linux community will come at a cost where Microsoft will charge subscription money to Linux users. Or worse try to sneak in a Microsoft Patent and then charge for it 2 years later.
The more likely and less paranoid view is that if they can get SQL Server running on Linux, then that's one more part of Azure they can move to lower-cost, lower-powered hardware. It's a smart move and one I'd take if I was in Nadella's seat too.
Likely not exactly that. But I can see MS at some point going the Apple route and using BSD. The reason that's doubtful near term is that MS is still a software company, Apple has in many ways become a hardware company.
Yeah, my comment is pretty clearly hyperbole. I doubt Microsoft is emotionally ready to give up NT just yet, but first and foremost they're a software & services company. If people are going away from Windows, Microsoft's going to follow with its products -- especially the big money-making productivity and server ones.
I always thought MS sucks at support which would be the only reason to go with a corporate backed distribution. Unless they plan on only bringing MSSQL and office to their distribution
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7 u/roznak 07 Mar 2016 22:38
Microsoft SQL server on your Linux server means a NSA back door and Microsoft targeted advertisement straight to the Linux users.
-2 u/coldacid [OP] 08 Mar 2016 03:52
Paranoid much?
-1 u/roznak 08 Mar 2016 18:41
Not paranoid, just an early warning that the Linux community is being taken over by Microsoft and you get charged in the next few years for using Linux.
1 u/el_cordoba 09 Mar 2016 11:51
I don't see how that is possible. Linux is open source. Even if MS manages to take over a distribution and add proprietary binaries to it will probably end like everything else they take over. Look at Nokia for an example.
7 u/gosso920 07 Mar 2016 23:20
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
That's the Microsoft way.
1 u/causticity 08 Mar 2016 06:31
Yeah, wouldn't surprise me at all if this is just another veiled attack vector, since their SCO dog has finally died.
5 u/FSB 07 Mar 2016 23:24
Well, they better start tuning it now. In most setups, even a PostgreSQL running on Windows beats this peace of shit.
2 u/roznak 07 Mar 2016 22:37
I see a pattern here. They are trying to take over Linux from within. That effort into the Linux community will come at a cost where Microsoft will charge subscription money to Linux users. Or worse try to sneak in a Microsoft Patent and then charge for it 2 years later.
1 u/coldacid [OP] 08 Mar 2016 03:51
The more likely and less paranoid view is that if they can get SQL Server running on Linux, then that's one more part of Azure they can move to lower-cost, lower-powered hardware. It's a smart move and one I'd take if I was in Nadella's seat too.
0 u/coldacid [OP] 07 Mar 2016 22:24
Prediction: Windows 11 will be Win32 and UWP on top of Linux and Wayland.
2 u/Vetullushe 08 Mar 2016 00:14
Likely not exactly that. But I can see MS at some point going the Apple route and using BSD. The reason that's doubtful near term is that MS is still a software company, Apple has in many ways become a hardware company.
2 u/coldacid [OP] 08 Mar 2016 03:54
Yeah, my comment is pretty clearly hyperbole. I doubt Microsoft is emotionally ready to give up NT just yet, but first and foremost they're a software & services company. If people are going away from Windows, Microsoft's going to follow with its products -- especially the big money-making productivity and server ones.
1 u/derfherdez 08 Mar 2016 13:41
Windows services for Linux.
Or maybe we will finally have Microsoft Linux
0 u/el_cordoba 09 Mar 2016 11:57
I always thought MS sucks at support which would be the only reason to go with a corporate backed distribution. Unless they plan on only bringing MSSQL and office to their distribution