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Microsoft has been open-sourcing a lot lately, but it seems to be mostly "peripheral" software...

The JDBC driver can be used to connect to SQL anywhere. Use it to connect to SQL Server (on-prem or in the cloud), Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

...associated with the use of their commercial products.

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> Microsoft has been open-sourcing a lot lately, but it seems to be mostly "peripheral" software...

How is .NET Core peripheral software? If anything it enables developers with C# codebases to move away from Microsoft's commercial products.

And they've open sourced a lot more than just .NET Core.

https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet

http://microsoft.github.io is a metasite with links to most of the Microsoft GitHub organizations and repositories. You can spend days flipping through all of it.

the carousel on top has four pips but three items. my ocd is at critical levels right now. (possibly something got filtered since i'm at work)

Here’s another overview:

https://opensource.microsoft.com/

Same as everyone? Did you see Google open-sourcing their search engine? Or "only" libraries? I am rather happy to see some parts of Microsofts software stack open source than nothing.

The value of Google software is not in the software itself, but also in the data. Without it, running Google search software on your hardware would get you nothing.

MSSQL, on the other hand...

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