mike_barton
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Info access for the rest of us

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Jun 7, 20071 min

Best of the blogs: Real World SOA notes that there are a number of limitations to the existing approaches to information access employed by today’s traditional middleware and application development tools, including unstructured data. Therefore, traditional access techniques are impossible. So, what do you do? Web integration.

Columnist’s corner: David L Margulius gets his gameshow on with Let’s make a deal!, which pegs the three deals everyone is buzzing about. One big pact to watch? Google-Salesforce, of course. But David notes the current impact on IT: none. Still, he predicts: “Your Microsoft rep might just get a little friendlier as the hosted competition’s footsteps draw closer!”

News update: The U.S. International Trade Commission barred the import of future models of phones using Qualcomm third-generation chips, marking a blow to the vendor in its ongoing intellectual property battle with Broadcom. Plus: Critical Windows fixes coming, MS buy boosts SQL Server and Vista SP1 verified.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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