Inventor sues DATAllegro and its chief for patent infringement
Microsoft stirred up some waves when it agreed to buy data warehouse appliance maker DATAllegro in July. One unexpected result: an inventor claims that DATAllegro stole his technology. He filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against the company and its chief executive.
Cary Jardin, an inventor, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court in San Diego, VentureBeat has learned. The suit names Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based DATAllegro and CEO Stuart Frost, but it does not name Microsoft.
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Microsoft acquires DATAllegro data warehouse appliance company
Microsoft has acquired data warehouse appliance maker DATAllegro in an attempt to strengthen its presence in the enterprise business intelligence market.
DATAllegro specializes in large-volume, high-performance data warehouse appliances with anywhere from 1 terabyte of data to hundreds of terabytes. Microsoft said the addition of DATAllegro means that its SQL Server product will now scale to large-scale data warehouses. Microsoft said it would retain most of DATAllegro’s team in Aliso Viejo, Calif.
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