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Accessing SQL Server from open source software
- icey 18y agoIt seems to me that writing drivers for SQL server would be an excellent place for Microsoft to embrace the OSS movement. Allowing language communities to write their own drivers for SQL Server strikes me as a win for Microsoft. The old argument was that by limiting the fastest access to SQL server (i.e. native drivers instead of ODBC) to Microsoft backed languages would be a selling point for those languages (and by extension the tools that Microsoft sold). It appears that they are just now beginning to address the threat being posed by Postgres and MySQL.