alliance

Your average news bulletin may say something about Corporation X partnering with sites Y and Z, and your average response may be a shrug - X, Y, and Z often represent companies you’ve never heard of.  But in this case, Vodafone has sealed a deal with Google, YouTube, eBay, and MySpace.

India’s population long ago passed the one billion mark, and Bharti Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services is that country’s largest private broadband and telephone service provider.  Thanks to a new deal, the gigantic corporation is also Google’s partner.

The much discussed NBC and News Corp video alliance will include Yahoo in its net of content distributors, and that is going to benefit the portal company.

Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax Alliance, along with thirty-one other companies.  And although thirty of those corporations were named in the official press release, a rather big one was left out: Google. The omission is more of an embarrassing slipup than an insulting snub, however.  John Ferraiolo, the Alliance’s blogger, writes, “Unfortunately, we became aware of Google after the press release went out.” 

Dee Rambeau presents a depressing workplace scenario that, in my experience, was all too common ten to twelve years ago as everyone began discovering the web as a business tool.

Sun Microsystems, known best for creating the Java programming language, has announced that it is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance, as well as the Dojo Foundation.

Yet another company has joined the recently formed Open AJAX Alliance, an industry group focused on promoting and spreading AJAX. ICEsoft will stand by established (and esteemed) members such as Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Google, IBM, the Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, and Zimbra.

Cybermation announced on Tuesday they joined Microsoft's hip Mainframe Migration Alliance. The wizards of Redmond created this exclusive group as an initiative aimed at helping enterprises move to their .NET platform.