[PaulHoule]

It has nothing to do with Linux vs. Windows.

It does have something to do with SQL Server vs the world -- and that is life as usual at Microsoft.

Microsoft had a big leadership role in XML standardization at the W3C but has had little to do with RDF. (ex. Oracle contains a forward-chaining triple store optimized for geospatial work, SQL Server does not.)

The Microsoft SQL server team would naturally oppose any effort to make a competing database. They've tried to deep six the JET engine that powers Microsoft Access because (i) people want access, and (ii) Microsoft SQL server Express/Compact/whatever is not an effective replacement.

Thus, there is not a lot of room under Microsoft's umbrella for a competitive project, but "yet another open source graph database" is not seen as a threat.

[jessedhillon]

Is this based on experience or reporting from within Microsoft, or is this kremlinology?

[hackuser]

> Microsoft SQL server Express/Compact/whatever is not an effective replacement.

Why not?