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Brocade buys McData in summer sale

Happening as it did just as I was going on holiday this one nearly passed me by, but it still deserves a post – at the beginning of August Brocade announced its intentions to spend $713M on acquiring the only acquirable competition in the storage switch space (the other guy’s Cisco), namely McData. Interesting times [...]

Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by

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Microsoft's open specification promise

Yesterday, Microsoft announced an “irrevocable promise not to assert” for 35 web services-related specifications (as far as I can tell all of the WS-* specifications that the company has contributed to), ranging from SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security through to WS-Management, WS-Trust and the web SSO specifications developed with Sun. What this basically means is that Microsoft [...]

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