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What? First, they have enough cash to weather quite a lot of financial upsets. But to say they are dependent on their OS for revenue is silly. SQL Server inc
by clavalle 13y ago
What? First, they have enough cash to weather quite a lot of financial upsets.
But to say they are dependent on their OS for revenue is silly.
SQL Server income is not dependent on the OS -- anything can talk to it. Their cloud solution is not dependent on their OS. Search. Even Lync and Office can be used with other operating systems.
- heartbreak 13y agoDoes MSSQL run on Wine?
- marcosdumay 13y agoI don't know, and one can't even try. (Really. Read the EULA.) And if you decide to ignore everything and try it, you can't discover if it's faster than native Windows either, nor compare it with Postgres.
- clavalle 13y agoI am hesitant to put any unnecessary software layers between my databases and the hardware so I wouldn't know. But it doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped buying and using Windows tomorrow /Microsoft/ could still use it. MSSQL is not dependent on a thriving market for Windows. Anyone that needed to administer the machine could just RDP into it.
- mikelat 13y agoMaybe I wasn't clear, my point was that the major breadwinners still depend on their high operating system marketshare. I have no doubt that things like sql server would be the last to go, but if they ever lost their operating system monopoly a lot of products they depend upon would collapse, and they would mostly definitely feel it.