Monday, 2008-07-28, Copenhagen
Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro! Yes and I just got this message in my box this morning. So the Data Warehousing market is having another round of re-ordering. It seems that Microsoft SQL Server team has been trying hard to find good solution to hold more than 20 TB of data in their system and the conclusion is that: “Well, since we cannot do that, let’s buy an existing opponent to deal with that.” I would guess that the SQL Server solution for data warehousing will become more popular in the market and we will see how the next version of SQL Server 2008 can include the technologies in DATAllegro platform.
Where is the source of all kinds of database research? Well, one can try to look into all the different universities (esp. the old ones) in the world and find if their department pages include some great names in the faculty list. One interesting blog-note that I just found recently is in the Stanford DB-blog (http://infoblog.stanford.edu/2008/07/database-research-principles-revealed.html) which is a very good understanding of different principles of doing database research. I guess this can be a classic note for most DB research newbees to learn.
VMWare just changed their CEO from Diane Greene to Paul Maritz. From a small start-up to a company with $1bn revenues, Greene has contributed a lot to the VMWare’s big growth. But, just like any other successful start-ups, it comes the time that the whole strategy of the company needs to be changed. Now, facing more challenges from Citrix and Microsoft, let’s just hope the new CEO can keep the company in good health.
Google to challenge Wikipedia? Why not! Google has formally released the “Knol” which is an alternative encyclopedia thing to Wikipedia. Actually this new tool includes some news thoughts from Google on how social collaboration should work and benefit people. Knol writers can make money by using AdSense program. What is more interesting is that Google also has an agreement with the New Yorker magazine and allows any author to add one cartoon per knoll from the New Yorker’s cartoon bank.
After the failure of acquiring Yahoo!, Microsoft is looking for another alternative to build up good web search engines for the future business. It has recently agreed to acquire a start-up company, “Powerset” to strength its free Live Search service. Seems that Microsoft is looking for another life-reboot like what Google did sometime ago.
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