Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right? Version 8.5 of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux operating system (RHEL) is out, with updates including .NET 6 and a system role for Microsoft SQL Server, as well as improved container support. "Red Hat and Microsoft have had a very successful collaboration," product manager Siddharth Nagar told The Register. "SQL Server is a …
Allowing users to ditch Windows Server and still keep running SQL Server
And thereby giving MS a solid foothold in your Linux infrastructure.
It's the same trick used by lots of other vendors; get people so invested in your proprietory technology that they can't normally operate without it or easily switch over to an alternative without spending lots of money / effort.
The only winning move is not to play.
Perhaps because it has first-class features, documentation, learning material and community support - lots of good reasons to use it, if you want to pay for it. I assume most shops running RHEL are doing so for reasons more than just 'it's not MS', though I could be wrong.
Even if it's just 'cheaper than MS', then the same justification would apply to using SQL Server instead of Oracle.
> NET 6 is quite a watershed release and as part of us having a more predictable release schedule we want to introduce content based on its natural lifecycle
I've read it through a few times and although I understand the words and statements individually, they neither answer the question nor add anything new.
If you must pay for your Linux, why not buy Windows 11 and run Redhat via a Chromebook sitting on your childs bedside cabinet.
Is this move simply entropy at work or is it just idiocy at work ?
Redhat devs must be using AI to help them decide what it's customers want it to get up to next.
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