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Apparently they ship it together with Windows as library OS:

https://twitter.com/TobiasSQL/status/798937457916002304

>The Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL) powering @SQLServer on #Linux evolved from the MSFT Research Drawbridge project

So Microsoft Wine? Part of the way there?

If I understand correctly, this is not even a compatibility layer like Wine. This is literally a part of the Windows kernel and userspace, running entirely inside Linux userspace.

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