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I know a few .NET stacks being served up on linux servers (no MS DB, obviously)

Why is it obvious no MS DB? SQL Server runs on Linux.

> SQL Server runs on Linux.

-ish, from what I've heard of colleagues struggling with it.

The core product runs the exactly same (thanks to the MSSQL PAL: platform abstraction layer).

Advanced features like the SQL agent and SSIS/SSAS/SSRS came later but the latest edition has pretty much reached parity across Windows and Linux.