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I had a great conversation with Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource last week. As readers of TSS will know, news of SpringSource acquiring Covalent caused much buzz amongst notary middleware personalities. Rod explained that acquiring Covalent provides
On the surface, I don't see how Yahoo can say no to Microsoft's offer. It's premium of 60% over their current share price. And it's likely far higher than any other company would bid. But that still doesn't mean it's an
LiMo releases a beta version of its Linux mobile phone software's APIs; handsets running the platform are due soon
Torvalds says Microsoft would never seriously go after patents because 'when you're a convicted monopolist, you really should not be suing your competitors over patents'
Ok, who knew that this week's earlier deals were just a precursor to Microsoft making an acquisition offer for Yahoo! It's been clear for a long time that Microsoft was running in third place (or later) in many of the new markets like searc
You've all read about the proposed deal. The National Post has a copy of the letter that Ballmer et al sent to the Yahoo board. Here are two paragraphs I found interesting: 1] Ballmer reminds Yahoo that he/Microsoft was right all along (emphasis
InformationWeek is reporting a deal between French automaker Renault and Microsoft: "Under the arrangement, Microsoft will provide Renault with 1,000 "certificates" for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise server product. The deal also
Hyperic has announced a new major version of their HQ monitoring system that adds plenty of new capabilities. HQ enables companies with a web infrastructure to monitor all the various components of the stack, whether open source, closed or a mix. For