Microsoft has said that it will be releasing SQL Server 2016 on enterprise Linux distributions



From Neowin:

In a blog post Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, has announced that SQL Server 2016 will be starting its wave of launch activities at their Data Driven event in New York this Thursday with general availability later in 2016. We have covered SQL Server 2016 previously, and some of the benefits it brings to Big Data as well as security conscious users. Microsoft also has announced that for the first time, SQL Server will be released for Linux.

  Microsoft announces that it will be releasing SQL Server 2016 on Linux