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Mar 8, 2016

Ch-Ch-Changes: Microsoft Will Put a New Product On the Open Source Linux System

Microsoft has long resisted open source because Windows was a license to print money. But that lock was circumvented by mobile, leaving MSFT an also-ran and potential has-been.

In order to regain relevance, especially from the coding community, the company has now acknowledged that greater accessibility may not be as profitable in the short term, but that encouraging more users can be exponentially more profitable in the long term.

Klint Finley reports in Wired:

It is possible that more companies would pay for Microsoft SQL Server licenses if they could run it on Linux, thus avoiding having to pay for both a Windows Server license and a SQL Server license. That might end up being a wash for Microsoft’s bottom line. But more openness to open source could ultimately mean more techies are open to Microsoft.

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