Microsoft acquires DATAllegro

Lots of interesting posts on this news, from:

• Curt Monash's DBMS2 blog - all his DATAllegro links are here - as there are so many of them. He also links to other comments
  
• Philip Howard at Bloor and IT-Director suggests that MS is assembling an entire DW stack with Zoomix and perhaps one day Kalido and Ab Initio as additional components
• Mark Madsen from Intelligent Enterprise says what it means for customers, other vendors and BI
  
• Kevin Closson with his welcome plain-speaking (and Oracle-centric) viewpoint refers back to earlier posts wondering about some specific details of this emperor's clothes
  
• Seth Grimes thinks it's a mistake that will be slow to deliver (and may hurt existing DATAllegro customers); it should have been Dataupia
• DATAllegro CEO Stuart Frost sounds happy with his new role
  

Meanwhile Seth Grimes also uses the news to point up a real difference in quality between Google and Microsoft search capabilities.