<b>Not quite dead:</b> At long last, the big Redmondian machine has raised the curtains for Office Live Workspaces, its online document-sharing solution. Contributed Editor Randall C. Kennedy <strong><a href="/article/07/12/10/50TC-microsoft-live-workspaces_1.html">has taken a close look</a></strong> at the melding of Microsoft Office and the SaaS (software as a service) model -- and he w Not quite dead: At long last, the big Redmondian machine has raised the curtains for Office Live Workspaces, its online document-sharing solution. Contributed Editor Randall C. Kennedy has taken a close look at the melding of Microsoft Office and the SaaS (software as a service) model — and he wasn’t overly impressed. “The lack of any real innovation makes it difficult to differentiate OLW from the myriad hosted and non-hosted SaaS productivity solutions,” he writes.Riding the Rails aboard XP: With last week’s release of Ruby Rails 2.0, Strategic Developer Martin Heller decided it was time to update his installation. Alas, the process proved trying — but perhaps other Rails enthusiasts can learn from Heller’s suffering. Borland blends BI and ALM: InfoWorld Editor at Large was busy over the weekend, reporting that Borland intends to roll out products next year marrying business intelligence with application lifecycle management. The solutions “will collect data stored in disparate toolsets for use in reporting metrics in application development projects,” he writes. Technology Industry