The world is changing.* Microsoft has been doing things in the open source world for some time, but this last week it has gotten wild.
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Microsoft has just kicked off launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. Spatial data has been supported in SQL Server since 2012. According to a Microsoft blog post this is*the most*significant release of SQL Server ever. It includes some very cool technology:*in-memory database support for every workload with dramatic performance increases and advanced analytics based on R that enables customers to do real-time predictive analytics on both operational and analytic data among other things.* Microsoft introduced Polybase, a SQL Server connector to Hadoop in 2015. Microsoft has now incorporated that functionality into*SQL Server2016.*
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That's all pretty cool, but the biggest surprise is that Microsoft has announced plans to bring SQL Server to Linux. The core relational database capabilities are being* previewed right now.* SQL Server 2016 will be available on Linux in mid-2017.
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Gartner has named Microsoft as leading the industry in their Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems, slightly ahead of Oracle.*Microsoft also leads Gartner's*Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.* Very surprisingly Oracle is not even on the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.
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And that's not all.
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Microsoft has just released the source code to an open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. The software is called SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). SONiC builds upon Microsoft's Linux-based Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) operating system.
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That's all pretty cool, but the biggest surprise is that Microsoft has announced plans to bring SQL Server to Linux. The core relational database capabilities are being* previewed right now.* SQL Server 2016 will be available on Linux in mid-2017.
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Gartner has named Microsoft as leading the industry in their Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems, slightly ahead of Oracle.*Microsoft also leads Gartner's*Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.* Very surprisingly Oracle is not even on the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.
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And that's not all.
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Microsoft has just released the source code to an open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. The software is called SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). SONiC builds upon Microsoft's Linux-based Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) operating system.
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