ProQuest acquires Thomson Dialog

After surviving what has felt like benign neglect for several years now, Dialog is being acquired by ProQuest. Regardless of whether ProQuest decides to maintain Dialog as an aggregated search platform or to break out the databases into other packages, I'm reasonably confident that the wide range of content in Dialog will remain in some form. Whether or not the pricing is friendly to the small budgets of info-entrepreneurs and small organizations remains to be seen.