I never thought I'd see this happen, but it turns out to be quite a pleasant surprise. I know it's already possible to run ASP.Net on Linux via Apache, so this is the next logical step.
I'm quite impressed by the possibility of running SQL Server on Linux; as a T-SQL developer immediately out of university, I have come to appreciate its speed and efficiency. It's not perfect and it does have its annoying quirks, but in general it's quite a sturdy RDBMS. MySQL has demonstrated some much more WTF-y quirks (try inserting a varchar into an int column!) and there are places I prefer T-SQL syntax (e.g. temp tables). Management tools don't really factor into it, you can get third-party tools that support intellisense etc. on different RDBMSs. In short, I would have few reservations about using SQL Server for my own projects (since I run exclusively Linux at home).
Licensing is another story though; I dread to think how much it'll cost, but this is a pretty amazing step in the right direction, adding to a recent history of such steps, for Microsoft.
I'm quite impressed by the possibility of running SQL Server on Linux; as a T-SQL developer immediately out of university, I have come to appreciate its speed and efficiency. It's not perfect and it does have its annoying quirks, but in general it's quite a sturdy RDBMS. MySQL has demonstrated some much more WTF-y quirks (try inserting a varchar into an int column!) and there are places I prefer T-SQL syntax (e.g. temp tables). Management tools don't really factor into it, you can get third-party tools that support intellisense etc. on different RDBMSs. In short, I would have few reservations about using SQL Server for my own projects (since I run exclusively Linux at home).
Licensing is another story though; I dread to think how much it'll cost, but this is a pretty amazing step in the right direction, adding to a recent history of such steps, for Microsoft.