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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 and SOA, Web 2.0, Blu-ray, cellular streaming, and on and on – like a tornado crossing a junkyard. It’s one of those times when it’s hard to keep things straight. So Adobe’s AIR announcement roiled the swamp and raised the themes of rich Internet applications, offline Internet applications, and cross-platform runtimes in a wormy bundle. In the process it was lumped together, variously, with Google Gears, Mozilla Prism, Sun JavaFX and Microsoft Silverlight in the Air cover... (more)

Microsoft SSDS - Dumb Name, Brilliant Idea!

A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles - SIX! A random nonsense search term probably returns more than six items. But SSDS is a big deal, a strategy with far-reaching implications for many parts of the technology industry, deserving of more than six Google News hits. SSDS, as a part of Microsoft's emerging W... (more)