Canonical and Microsoft jointly announced support for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Azure. Running Ubuntu Pro and Azure on Microsoft SQL Server is more cost-effective than many alternatives.

Microsoft SQL Server, the company's flagship database software, has long been one of the company's most lucrative enterprise products, alongside its Windows Server operating system. Today ...

Last week, Microsoft dropped a bomb: In 2017, its incredibly popular SQL Server database product is coming to Linux — a free operating system that the company spent many years trying to drive ...