Comment Now we can blame another internal division... (Score 4, Interesting) 79
Usually a buyout like this would send people the message to immediately raise their expectations about the future performance of the business products. ProClarity has worked with Microsoft as a partner up until now to help them optimize SQL Server. Now we have to wonder how integral the ProClarity division will become and how likely they'll be the new target of internal blame when the intelligence just doesn't stack up.
ProClarity claims that their business intelligence software and solutions are used for decision support, data mining, balanced scorecards, and reporting from multiple data sources. It would be interesting to know just what scoring devices they'll be using for Microsoft's up and coming products.
Gold Star: It didn't crash until I opened a second copy
Silver: It was backwards compatable almost 30% of files from the previous version.
Bronze Star: Autosave worked great right after autodelete worked great!
Participants Award: Good thing they were only beta-testers...