I have a lot of negative feelings about Microsoft because of the historical baggage but they have some good products and technologies. I am also fairly negative

I have a lot of negative feelings about Microsoft because of the historical baggage but they have some good products and technologies. I am also fairly negative on Oracle but when they released their database on Linux it was important for me at the time as it gave a boost to Linux server work (now with added DBA). There is a lot of software that targets a limited subset of databases due to SQL incompatibilities/features and sometimes that is a subset of one. Getting some of those backends on Linux would be nice for people who have concentrated on unix/linux skills to the detriment of their Windows knowledge. This eats Windows OS sales to some extent but I am sure they can make it up with database licenses and market share if they take the product seriously.