>Oh wow!!!!!
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>I see issues almost immediately. I wonder how they will provide connections? Oh there are ODBC tools on Linux but to get Linux to connect you have use FreeTDS or unixODBC. Neither, is a walk in the park to setup and IMO not as good as MS-ODBC tools. Then of course there are the issues of replacing MySQL and PostgreSQL (both are free and are standard on all releases of Linux).
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>Right now I'm of the opinion that there is little in the Linux world that beats PostgreSQL in terms of features and performance.
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>All that said - I'm happy to see M$ may soon become just 'MS'.
If not via ODBC, how do Linux clients talk to Linux-hosted PostgreSQL/MySQL?
Regards. Al
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