A US judge's ruling in favour of application developer Timeline in its patents dispute with Microsoft could raise software costs and reduce buyer choice, argues Martin Banks
A judgment in a recent patent dispute between software vendor Timeline and Microsoft raises some disturbing implications for firms using SQL Server, and for applications developers in general. Th...
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