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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Concomitant with its demonstration of a limited-feature test version for Linux of its Microsoft SQL Server [soylentnews.org] RDBMS, and in an advertising campaign, Microsoft has offered [microsoft.com] complimentary licencing and technical support to customers of Oracle who change over to Microsoft SQL Server 2016, which is available only as a release candidate. Putative recipients, however, must subscribe to the company's Software Assurance [wikipedia.org] service.

stories:

• The Register [theregister.co.uk] (non-Cloudflare copy [archive.is])
• Tech Crunch [techcrunch.com]
• Redmond Online [redmondmag.com]

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