According to Fadhley, “IronPython could be a massive landgrab by Microsoft into the domain of traditional Unix scripting.”Recently Microsoft released IronPython 1.0 Beta 1, which allows all .Net libraries to be easily accessed by Python programmers, are they planning to add IronPython support to its Visual Studio tools suite ?

Google Group (comp.lang.python) announced the great news ! The creator of the Python programming language, Guido van Rossum had an offer from google and he accepted it.

Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail said in a recent interview that Bangalore, the hub of the Indian IT industry is right now more of a Services Valley rather than a Silicon Valley because: