There was good news for Linux enthusiasts from the database front last week, as enterprise Linux suppliers and database vendors made some deals.

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document ...

Microsoft is well-known for three things, their hardware (such as the Microsoft Surface series), their operating systems and their software. The problem being is that a lot of these are closely ...

Microsoft is producing a version of its database software that runs on the rival Linux operating system.

Microsoft has unveiled a version of SQL Server, a flagship database program, for Linux. That's right -- you can get a major Microsoft data center app without having to touch Windows.

Microsoft Corp. MSFT will make its database software available for Linux systems. So customers currently using the open source operating system Linux.

The popularity continues to grow for Linux as an enterprise server operating system, as well as a platform for running large database servers.

Oracle's flagship database software is still far more popular than Microsoft's, and open source alternatives like MySQL and PostgreSQL are already enormously popular on Linux.