Back in grade school, we played a game we called “Kill the Guy with the Ball,” in which one courageous boy — this was not a co-ed game, at least in the 60′s — would take the ball and run with it, in any direction, and everybody else would chase him, screaming bloody murder. Before [...]

SDL signed the papers to buy Idiom on 8 February and announced the deal at the opening of business in the United Kingdom on 11 February. Two weeks later, the mainstream business press has yet to cover the event.

21 February 2008 is International Mother Language Day. In the grand scheme of the universe, we may have another billion years or so to colonize outside our solar system before the sun dies out, but probably only a few generations to devise a stable context for social continuity and the survival of our species.

Idiom surprised most of its customers, LSP partners, and software partners this week with the announcement that it had sold itself to rival translation management supplier SDL. Here is a summary of what has happened since Monday.