This is the kind of tragedy that doesn’t typically happen in IT. After walking away from a minimum security prison camp, a convicted spammer appears to have killed his wife and three year-old daughter. A teenage girl also was shot, but survived. Fugitive spam king dead in apparent murder-suicide. Microsoft says it will buy DATAllegro for its data warehouse appliance, with which Microsoft hopes to bolster SQL Server and make it a better fit for high-end enterprise-class data storage and business analytics. Related: Microsoft acquires Zoomix to add data-quality to SQL Server. An analyst is suggesting that Android and Symbian ought to unite into one open source OS for mobile devices because the result would not only challenge Apple’s iPhone but, more important perhaps, appeal to IT and business users looking to tap mobile open source on multiple devices. And even though a headline he wrote indicates that the Microsoft-Yahoo dance is over, Robert X. Cringely isn’t so sure he believes it. The nightmarish saga has dragged on too long already, but neither Microsoft nor Yahoo has convincingly shut the door just yet. Microsoft + Yahoo: RIP? Software Development