“Microsoft loves Linux” - what does it mean to you and your client ?
Microsoft loves Linux - yes you read it right. Once Linux was compared with Cancer by MS, but the scenario has totally changed. Now they are kind of in a romantic relationship. If you have followed some recent announcements by MS in Satya Naddela era they are really focused on making things open source, making things cross platform, building things Cloud and Mobile first. With a intent of opening up new frontier to the open source community. Couple of years ago we got .NET Core, a lean .NET framework to build cross platform applications targeting Windows, Linux and MacOS. Which enables us mordenising the application in the era of Client side heavy, contenerised applications built for cloud and all. Recently MS has announed SQL Server 2017 for Linux. Yes, they made it like what Oracle is doing for many years. At the same time this not to kill open source databases like MySQL, PostGree etc. This is to tap into the market where there are players already exists and and f...