Microsoft and Red Hat extend partnership: SQL Server and .NET Core 1.0 support on RHEL

At the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco today, Red Hat and Microsoft are making announcements that extend the partnership the two companies established last year, when Red Hat agreed to bring the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud.
Now Microsoft is beginning a private preview of its SQL Server 2016 database software on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. This follows Microsoft’s attention-grabbing announcement that it would be