Several Millenia ago people began to make noises, and the noises sounded cool. They learned to repeat them, and make rythim and many types of sounds and even some melodies. Then they may have begun to click and humm to these sounds. Soon they were singing and making instruments, simple things made with their own hands.

Music was free!

Then the people making the instruments started to specialize and started demanding barters and then money for the instruments. The people making the cool noises and music and songs, started to pan handle while they were performing and earned a few odds and ends to pay for their instruments.

Then the musicians got better and started to perform as a service to various lords and wealthy individuals that would sponsor them to ‘produce’ more music. One thing led to another and before you know it the feudal system was out and musicians were trying to panhandle their music again. Fortunately, sheet music came along and music composers made a small fortune selling sheet music, which was tedious but not impossible to copy by hand.

Then the age of radio came and the actual performers could perform their music for the masses. Radio stations needed musical ‘content’ for their programs and would pay performers to perform. The record player had been created before the advent of radio. With the combination of a recordable media player and a methodology to promote the media, record sales became a big business.

The dawn of the digital age brought forth a new era where music could be copied from records to discs, faster and cheaper. However, the music industry did not pass these savings on to consumers. Technology surged past the music industry and suddenly the music could be technically copied and shared for free. Music was free again!

This upset the balance of things, and a backlash ensued as the record industry and some performers and composers staged attacks against their customers and fans that were listening to music for free. Along came an entrepreneurially, Steve Jobs. He offered up a crazy plan to sell music again in an era when no one was paying for it.

For no apparent reason,

People started to pay for music again!

The price? It was the same price that it had always been!

Now, one of the companies that had helped to spur on the age of free music, and then suffered the consequences of the backlash of music companies, reformed and was purchased by a group in the music industry. The company after finishing its ‘Napster‘ in the courts tried and tried to find a way to lure customers back away from their paying for music ‘Jobs.’

They tried competitive rates. They even tried a subscription service offering an unlimited list of music for $14.95 per month. People signed up but could not get the apple out of their eye-pod.

So now, Napster has gone back to their roots.

Music is Free Again at Napster!

As history has proven, music cannot be free forever, so unless your dead set on paying for music right down to the very last ‘nano’ buck in your bank account. Check it out now!

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One of the messages out of Hyperion’s recent Las Vegas trade show was the anouncement that Hyperion and Microsoft would be working to integrate their Business Intelligence solutions more closely.

Hyperion, Microsoft To Integrate BI Solutions: “Hyperion - a business performance management (BPM) solutions leader, and Microsoft will integrate their respective BI solutions. This collaboration will enable broader deployment of complementary BI solutions from Hyperion and Microsoft to customers that have adopted components of each.

For example, Hyperion customers will be able to use SQL Server Reporting Services to access Hyperion System 9 BI+ Essbase Analytics, and also display Microsoft reports in the Hyperion System 9 Workspace environment.

Microsoft customers will be able to access SQL Server Analysis Services data using Hyperion System 9 BI+. Also, Hyperion System 9 will leverage SQL Server Integration Services for data access.

Users will thus benefit by combining reports and data from both Hyperion and Microsoft data sources into a unified enterprise view.

‘Microsoft is committed to its expansive partner network building on the Microsoft platform and to continuing to form strong relationships with our global independent software vendors (ISVs) to benefit our mutual customers,’ said Robert Bernard, GM - global ISV group, Microsoft.

‘By integrating our leading BPM technology with Microsoft technology, we accelerate our ability to help our customers achieve information democracy - a state in which actionable insight is in the hands of all - across their enterprises,’ said Howard Dresner, Chief Strategy Officer, Hyperion. “

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