If you believe my long-time colleague 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...