This Week in the Trades: Your Software Keeps Getting Bought, and Everything Is Suddenly “AI”

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No software company that matters to a small shop shipped anything this week. What moved was ownership — a multibillion-dollar deal closed on Monday — and, a few days earlier, a decent argument that the word every vendor is now stamping on its product tells you almost nothing about what you’re buying. Those two things … Read more