Sql server 2017 already runs on Ubuntu 16.08, really well.

It runs through emulator, too [0].

[0]https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2016/12/16/sql-se...

Yes. Not sure what this prediction means in light of that.

Someone can use the Windows Server DLLs that ships with Microsoft SQL for Linux and use those DLLs to run Windows games better on Linux. An assumption is that Microsoft has shipped a Windows compatibility layer with Microsoft SQL Server for Linux.

Which they did, based on DrawBridge. It’s pretty interesting, basically it’s the NT kernel as a library OS which hosts native PE binaries. There are some white papers around.

This is amazing, thanks for the pointer!

Indeed, I'd always assumed that it was running natively.