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Accidental Tech Podcast

160: Be Careful Out There

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you sad at all about the M5 leaving?

0:02.9

You should pull the engine noise MP3s off the computer so you can play them anytime you want when you miss it.

0:07.7

So let's move on to something super exciting.

0:13.8

Let's talk about SQL Server on the...

0:15.9

I couldn't even get it out of this straight face.

0:17.9

I tried so hard, I couldn't even do it.

0:21.0

Well this is kind of interesting, right?

0:23.3

Because like, you know, Microsoft has their database SQL Server,

0:26.2

which forever has required Windows Server.

0:29.2

And I would imagine a lot of Windows Server licenses were exclusively to run Microsoft SQL Server.

0:37.7

So them making this or announcing that it will be available for Linux is interesting.

0:43.3

You know, because that means, again, like we brought up last week,

0:46.7

how them bringing .NET to Linux officially would be, you know, interesting and might have a negative effect on their Windows Server licenses.

0:56.1

This will probably have an even bigger negative effect on their Windows Server licenses.

1:00.3

So I think what this is showing is that Microsoft would rather that you use .NET and use SQL Server rather,

1:09.2

then necessarily be stuck to Windows Server.

1:11.7

And so all the reasons that people have for not using Microsoft Server products,

1:16.4

now they have one big one less.

1:19.8

Fewer? Then they bring this up last week.

1:21.5

I don't know, maybe I'm misremembering, but I remember talking about

1:25.7

the similar issues of like that Microsoft is becoming more friendly to Linux

1:30.7

and how people don't like to run Linux servers and Windows Server is the two kind of separate domains of knowledge.

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