>Companies Are Fleeing Oracle Into the Arms of Microsoft's SQL Server on Linux
>Microsoft is embracing Linux in a big way, and it's already paying off.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/16/companies-are-fleeing-oracle-into-the-arms-of-micr.aspx
>8,000 companies have signed up to try Microsoft's SQL Server for Linux in first week
http://www.neowin.net/news/8000-companies-have-signed-up-to-try-microsofts-sql-server-for-linux-in-first-week
>Microsoft continues Linux lovefest with open source network software SONiC
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3044501/cloud-computing/microsoft-continues-linux-lovefest-with-open-source-network-software-sonic.html
>companies will try MS SQL
>MEDIA SPIN
>"Companies Are Fleeing Oracle"
>>53550360
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>embrace
>extend
>extinguish
microsoft should go back to making shitty windows updates
>>53550395
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Nobody cares about MS or Oracle SQL, it's all about PostgreSQL or MariaDB
>>53550393
Tech media is so fucking bad, those journalists wouldn't know the difference between resolution and screen size, yet they try to shit out and dumb 'spicy' news to satisfy equally dumb readers
>>53550393
kekd
>>53550360
>Fleeing Oracle Into the Arms of Microsoft's SQL Server
What in the actual fuck....why?
Oracle is in the position it's in because they built a solid dbms and created a more scriptable version of SQL. If a company isn't buying it for these features they should just use postgresql.
>>53550425
you must be one of those sassy self employed web devs, you go sista!
>>53550393
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/microsoft-built-linux-everyone-else/
>Built its own Linux
Except it's based on Debian. So "built its own Linux" means "built on top of an already-existent distro".
>Companies Are Fleeing Oracle Into the Arms of Microsoft's SQL Server
Why not Postgresql?
>>53550360
>Microsoft continues Linux lovefest
It's impressive how Microsoft have managed to spin this narrative and gotten the media to fall for it hook, line and sinker, whilst waging war against open source software under the radar.
http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm-offensives-distract/
>>53550409
I'd just like to interject for a moment. The person you're referring as
Linus has, in fact, done just a kernel for the GNU operating system, or as
I've recently taken to calling it, nothing. Linus is not a programmer unto
himself, but rather another leech in a fully functioning software team made
useful by GNU developers.
Many computer users run his lackluster version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the finnish reject
who is widely popular today is often called a "programmer", and many of
his followers are not aware that he stole his ideas from the GNU system,
developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linus Torvalds, and these people are worshiping him,
but he is just another attention whore in the software world. Linus is an
egotist: someone who wastes resources to develop his knockoff kernel that
you run. Linus is not an essential person in the project and is useless by
himself; he can only function in the shadow of a complete software team.
>>53550496
because companies only trust companies, not communities
>>53550539
Then nobody would use GCC, Apache, ngnix, openssh, git, nmap, vim/emacs, ffmpeg, LAPACK/BLAS.. I could go on for a while.
>>53550409
Why did you edit it? This does not make any sense unless it is said by Linus himself.
>By my definition
>By the definition of me, the Literally Who
>>53550478
The push away from proprietary DBs is very strong, in all fields.
Meh, biggest problem I, as a admin in small-middle sized company, have with Microsoft is their often unclear licensing policies outside of US.
>>53550360
I signed up to try, am I now an american company fleeing Oracle?
>>53550877
Yes.
There will be orange-and-white helicopters above your house in minutes.
It was good while it lasted. Goodnight Linux.
>>53550877
>4Chan Users Manipulate Microsoft Usage Statistics.
>not using Postgres
>>53551479
What are the advantages of Postgres over MySQL?
>>53550360
Recently switched from GNU plus Linux to freebsd, so I'm still a member of the secret club
>>53551703
It takes fewer characters to type a query and is generally 3x faster than MySQL in meaningful benchmarks.
They should use MongoDB because it's web-scale.
>>53550836
>my argument is only sensible when I pretend it was said by a person of authority
Says a lot about how valid it is. Hey I have a counter argument:
"Fuck you"
- Jesus Christ
Microsoft wins again
Companies changing the features rich PL/SQL for T-SQL?!?
Weird...
>>53550360
>Companies Are Fleeing Oracle
Perfectly reasonable thing to do.
>Into the Arms of Microsoft
Full retard.
>>Microsoft continues Linux lovefest
>Lovefest
lol they love money. Linux is a means to and end and nothing more.
>>53552844
For everyone involved
>>53550805
I actually dislike the monstrous adoption of ffmpeg, there's literally no competitors, and that stifles innovation
Worst of it most of the companies using ffmpeg never contribute anything back, and a lot of them plainly violate the GPL
>>53552904
Libav exists kinda, it's shit though. ffmpeg is just a frontend for various encoder libraries anyway you don't even need it the encoders can be used alone usually.
Lol
Companies are not fleeing oracle, they just fucking released this shit last week! MSSQL licensing is hardly cheaper than oracle, and you're running oracle you can't just easily switch to sql unless you're running some slow as fuck DB abstraction layer, in which case you're probably not big enough to be using oracle in the first place.
Now I fucking hate oracle as a company and as a product, but MSSQL cannot compete with something like exadata.
>>53550360
>>Companies Are Fleeing Oracle
None too early.
>Into the Arms of Microsoft's SQL Server on Linux
Toppest kek, but typical. They'll also flee it in 20 years.
Nothing to see here, really.
>>53552175
>using mongoloidDB
lel
>>53552844
>he thinks red hat do it for free
>>53550478
They'd use MongoloiDB
>>53553543
Everything Red Hat produces is free software. They provide support and services for businesses.
>>53553670
>2016
>/g/
>doesn't know the difference between freedom and price
MURRIKA FUK Y
>>53553696
The software Red Hat provides is both gratis and libre
>>53553745
Not sure if inbred or lobotomized.
>>53553935
Well aside from the fact that the source code to the entire RHEL distro is freely available for anyone to compile themselves there's also:
>Fedora(run by Red Hat)
>CentOS(sponsored and supported by Red Hat, basically RHEL for free)
Also their sub-projects like systemd are freely available, no one pays for them. A significant portion of the Linux kernel itself was contributed by Red Hat.
>>53554036
Inbred it is I see.
Has anyone tried integrating a shell into the kernel space of Linux?
>>53554067
So you have no rebuttal then? I win?
>>53554156
Linuxfags BTFO
Sekrit Klub is over
