To understand the potential impact of Microsoft's cloud strategy and SSDS service initiative on Oracle, IBM/DB2, Sun/MySQL, Ingres, Postgres and other relational or post-relational database management systems, it's important to note that SSDS has nothing to do w...

Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point. And that's understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next generation of everything all at once right now - SaaS an...