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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by brightball on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:21AM (#17819301)
Why anyone would reverse engineer SQL Server for Linux is beyond me. It’s a good database...but it’s a trap. Once you’re on it, it’s nightmare to migrate off when you start hitting limitations. They go out of their way not to include features that make it possible to push data outside, so if your team is using even a single stored procedure for writing data you can’t just do it at the application level to bypass it.

Needs to be in less places, not more.

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tomc1985 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:43AM (#17819486)
They're only after the compatibility shims in its code to make it work on Linux.