Re: laugh or cry
"Microsoft know the vast majority of users will eventually want features like always on availability group clustering in production so they will eventually need SQL on Windows Server and then end up paying for the fully capable version."
Thats entirely the point. Get them hooked then reel them into the windows ecosystem when their systems are too complex to switch to another DB. In supermarket terms it would be called a loss leader.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
