If you believe my long-time colleagueВ John C. Dvorak, Sun purchasing open-source database power MySQL was "perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions." Nonsense! This is Sun's best deal ever. Besides, the worst technology acquisition of all-time is still Compaq buying DEC. Let us have a moment ...

Microsoft to Work with Talend to Ensure High Performance of TalendВґs Open Source Data Integration Solutions on Windows LOS ALTOS, Calif. - January 22, 2008 - Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced plans to work together with Microsoft to optimize TalendВґs software on the Microsoft Windows platform. ...

Microsoft has opened up its usability specifications, the User Interface Automation (UIA), to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), a group formed to develop standards for making user interfaces more accessible to people with disabilities. The 2,600-page specification document, which was released royalty-free, marks the first significant upgrade to the Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) standards, which were ...

Like every other big venue, Microsoft is using the Consumer Electronics Show to campaign for itsВ software plus services strategy. That's strange, because CES would have been the right place for Microsoft to add another plus. Microsoft's software plus services strategy is minus something. It's another plus that Microsoft could more easily add than Web 2.0 ...

Open Grid Forum (OGF) recently achieved a major leap forward in ensuring grid interoperability becomes real. Microsoft, Altair Engineering and Platform Computing have adopted OGF's High Performance Computing Basic Profile Specification in next-generation product releases. The HPC Basic Profile Specification incorporates two OGF published standards --В the OGSA-Basic Execution Services specification and the Job Submission Description ...