Microsoft SQL Server Enhancements: Windows Integration Focus

Microsoft will not be swayed by the current industry momentum of Linux and open source, with no plans afoot to port the database to either Linux or Unix or make any SQL Server code available through an open source format, he said. . . . Microsoft will not be swayed by the current industry momentum of Linux and open source, with no plans afoot to port the database to either Linux or Unix or make any SQL Server code available through an open source format, he said.

"Oracle and IBM go across many platforms and you get a homogenized release that doesn't work very well on any one platform," Rizzo said. "We believe that integrating deeply with Windows is a benefit to our customers."