Database software vendor FoundationDB has acquired Akiban, another purveyor of database software, in a move to develop a hybrid data-store application capable of storing both SQL and non-SQL data.

Whether users actually want to run SQL Server on Linux is another question entirely. Oracle's flagship database software is still far more popular than Microsoft's, and open source alternatives ...

SQL Server on Linux was released with SQL Server 2017 and has proved to be increasingly popular with users because organizations which run their workloads on the open source platform can take a ...

Microsoft's Enterprise Software Price Hikes Paying Off As SQL Server Business Hits $5 Billion Mark. ... "So they're cutting back on SQL Server upgrades in order to keep the cost under control." ...