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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by sah2ed on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:01PM (#13648118)
> ... but I probably wouldn't focus on that stack starting now if you are into the startup or california scene.

That is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. In tandem with their marketing of Azure, MS is pushing SQL Server on Linux heavily [0].

"SQL Server is Windows-only" is no longer a valid argument to choose another RDBMS if a startup uses lots of MS tooling but deploy on Linux servers.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-vnext-...

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