Re:Ask HN: Would you consider running SQL Server on Linux?
by polskibus on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:23PM
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The reason is to get out of Windows licensing that is a mess, if you are trying to offer something on a cloud, outside Azure. In theory and in some interpretation, Windows Authentication (the only accepted auth mechanism by SSAS) requires all direct and indirect users to have a Windows Server CAL (!).
SSAS, not yet, though few people use this and I don't know I'd recommend it on the same box. Is that a reason to move SSIS/SQL Engine to Linux and have SSAS on Windows? You'd have to decide.