marius popa wrote:

> it's shared source (look but don't touch)
>
> "Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto
> Microsoft's turf? Perhaps. The software giant is considering making
> the source code for its SQL Server database available to customers,
> according to Tom Rizzo, director of product management in Microsoft's
> SQL Server unit."
>
>

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+ponders+open-source+database/2100-7344_3-55874
51.html

MS had made for years the source of Windows available to some high end
customers that can pay for a special source code license, mostly to build
special utilities that need to be developed knowing the operating system
internals.
In this regard, I don't think the MsSql move will be much different.

C.