>And 2013 is the newest one you can find - two years ago?
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>Look, MS has a very good product with Azure - but it's not dissimilar to other offerings. Sharepoint, I consider a good product too. But again I can do much of the same things with other products. So what are they offering that is taking the industry over. Let's hope windows 10 does not fall on it face.
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>Johnf

Obviously I'm partial to SQL Server, but the truth is that MS SQL Server has been inching its way from a departmental solution to a corporate/enterprise solution. They've done some good things with columnstore indexes and in-memory optimized tables that give major ETL/DW apps a boost. Things aren't perfect, but when you look at the database engine in 2008, and then 2012, and then now....there's some real pop to their offerings.