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Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
It's a beast in terms of complexity, in my opinion. But the vendor only supports running it on specific configurations.
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On the flip side, every single MSSQL instance that I've encountered has been legacy. For at least five years.
For mid sized businesses, where you're mostly just doing some business reporting, a single mssql instance makes for a great and very cheap 'data warehouse'. All the auth magically works for people to connect with Excel, and powerbi+cloud just works out of the box. I'd be curious what a better/non-legacy solution is! (as I do this stuff haha, and don't see much else other than full cloud options, sf etc)
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
Azure services run on [customized] Hyper-V, thus Windows Server. Azure networking is Linux. EDIT: Marvel at the NT4 style Task Manager [0]. [0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Building Unreal games. Running windows containers. Windows server is actually kind of awesome for when you need a Windows machine. Linux is great for servers but Windows server is the real Windows pro. Rock solid and none of the crap. The worst part of Windows server is knowing that Microsoft can make a good operating system and chooses not to.
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Companies that aren't technology companies but use technology that has been doing the job for 20 years.
(I know, I know. That question might be a bit too loaded. I'm really very sorry. No, there's no need that; I'll see myself out.)
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Even Apple and Google run AD internally.
Gotta support all those CAD workstations running Windows.
Is Apple hardware still designed on Windows PCs?
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It's "legacy" because it's essentially tied to Windows. Yes, technically it works on Linux, and no doubt that was an amazing feat, but no serious company is running MSSQL on Linux when all the documentation, all the best practices are all based on running that on Windows.
Why did they port it to Linux? Knowing nothing about this, I wonder if they're getting ready to retire Windows Server, and wanted to get their server products off it? Edit: How they did it is also quite fascinating: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2016/12/16/s... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/ >a key contribution of Drawbridge is a version of Windows that has been enlight…
For example, the Aspire.NET orchestrator pulls the Linux docker image of SQL Server in much the same way as it does for MySQL or Postgres.