On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:45 AM, <chaminda@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm running CentOS 5.1. Is there any way to run MSDE or MSSQL on Linux? > > You can talk to them from a linux box, but you can't really RUN them > from a linux box without virtualizing a windows OS. > > -- > During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. > George Orwell > _______________________________________________ We run Widows 2003 + MSSQL 2006 on top of Linux with XEN. If hardware limitations are the reason for your request, this is one way todo it. I know it will work on VMWare & VirtualBox as well. If you have the spare hardware, then rather run Windows server on it's own hardware, the performance will be better. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos