Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Firstly, I don’t know much about DatAllegro, other than the fact that their product is an enterprise Data Warehouse solution. A colleague of mine told me about the acquisition (http://www.datallegro.com/pr/7_24_08_microsoft_acquisition.asp) this morning. What I think is significant is that MS is continuing to grow its database platform and that is good news for SQL Professionals. The way I look at it is that if SQL grows, I will grow with it and somewhere down the line my job description and skill-set become far more valuable. That can only be a good thing.