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Microsoft buys data management firm, pulls product line

Microsoft has bought data management firm Stratature to provide improvements to its SQL server, business intelligence, and SharePoint products. The Georgia-based company makes "Master Data Management" products to improve business databases. It collects company data from different places and puts it into one standardised system …

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

This is getting to be a habit

Microsoft seem to be doing a lot of buying up and shutting down recently. Obviously can't compete on a level playing field.

I wonder if all these "Linux Patent protection" deals are part of a similar strategy to buy up and shut down Linux?

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Nothing to see here, move along

Its just the the usual MS policy of buying in anything interesting. Lets be honest, as a software company thats what they have done since the days of DOS, original ideas/innovation have always been aquired rather than created in-house.

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