Rethinking Ray Ozzie

Re:Rethinking Ray Ozzie by boyter on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:17AM (#6493683)

I wish Microsoft would go back to their roots. That is developing software that runs on all platforms.

I think many would love to have Office available on all platforms.

Personally I would be thrilled to write C# with first class support on Linux (Mono is not close to having this yet).

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Re:Rethinking Ray Ozzie by teh_klev on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:04AM (#6494679)

I wish they'd write an official set of native MS SQL drivers for Linux, like they did with the PHP SQL drivers on Windows. Yes I know there's FreeTDS, unixODBC etc, but the level of faff getting it to work just so never fills me with confidence.

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Re:Rethinking Ray Ozzie by xradionut on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:19AM (#6494882)

I'm happy that Linux doesn't have MS SQL drivers. The increasing cost of SQL Server licensing is the driving force towards PostgreSQL for many of our projects. The larger clients can afford the costs and seem to enjoy being treated as cash cows by Redmond.

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Re:Rethinking Ray Ozzie by aespinoza on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:43AM (#6493748)

And with Xamarin moving fully to Mac, Linux matters less for mono.

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