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The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Oracle Tax is progressiveYou get what you pay for.It is not just the tools.Having dealt with DB2, Informix, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Sybase over the last 20 years, I'm more than willing to pay the DB2/Oracle/... Tax.The FOSS dbms engines are still playing catch up in terms of features....

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Tax, tax, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Tool, Oracle Tax, Fortunate 1000, Graham, Productivity, Storage, Taxes, Databases, Open Source, Hardware, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Additional Resources

Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea

Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...

Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-04

As you sow...

Not quite off topic but something that cuts Oracle a break and shows us here at ZDN to be as capable as anyone of getting things messed up. Check this post from our mutual friend Jake Kuramoto.To selectively quote: A few things were wrong about this whole thing. First,...

Tags: Finger, Podcasts, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet

Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream.  He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...

Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

OMG! texting is so expensive

OMG! texting is so expensiveSeems ReasonableI don't understand the allure of texting, but that's beside the point. The price increase seems perfectly reasonable to me, if texting is too expensive folks can stop texting.RE: OMG! texting is so expensiveIn America people just buy liabilities. Without them I wouldn't be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Government, Big Business, phone, allure, Object Management Group

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

OMG! texting is so expensive

Amid all the talk about AT&T's data plan fees and the cost of buying an unlocked iPhone perhaps the most notable jump is the cost of texting. News.com's Maggie Reardon breaks it down: Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major...

Tags: Text Message, Text Messaging, AT&T Corp., Object Management Group, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel

Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...

Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Rainy Day Budget (zip)

Keeping a budget and controlling your spending can have great benefits, including avoiding serious debt problems such as bankruptcy and foreclosure. Rainy Day Budget makes creating, managing, and updating budgets simple. Use our intuitive user interface to easily add income sources, pre-tax and regular expenses, and savings funds. The payday...

Tags: Income, Payday Feature, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-07-02

Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market

Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the marketWhat BEA has that Oracle doesn't?Natural consequences: Convert to Oracle or something else!

Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., BEA strategy, strategy

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...

Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market

  Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Brightening outlook for solar energy?

Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...

Tags: Solar Energy, Investment, Utility Solar Assessment Study, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Apple posts iPhone 3G guided tour

Apple posts iPhone 3G guided tourI would have watched it but Apple won't let meI refuse to install QuickTime, the biggest security hole in modern day history, just to watch this video. Too bad, there might have been something in that video that made me change my mind and pick...

Tags: Corporate communications, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Why Microsoft might win in mobile

Why Microsoft might win in mobileInterface BreathroughI would say that the new HTC Touch is a breakthrough in mobile interfaces. I actually like it better than the iPhone. To me, it makes the iPhone/iPod Touch interfaces look boring.its called Opera Mobile 9.5Have you tried using Opera Mobile 9.5 on any...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, mobile, Opera Software, Apple Safari, Opera Mobile 9.5, Opera Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Habanero (zip)

Habanero is an object-relational mapping ORM architecture for .Net that maps object-oriented code to relational databases. Released as free open source, Habanero generates user interfaces to view and edit the mapped data, generates working code and reads class structure from an existing database. Support is included for MySQL, SQL Server,...

Tags: Chillisoft Solutions, Habanero, Databases, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Open Source, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-01

Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%

The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6% growth spike in 2007 to $18.8 bln compared to $16.7 bln in 2006, according to IDC. Oracle took the top spot, capturing 44.3% of the market with revenue growth of 13.3%. IBM came in second with a 21% share, also...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, Revenue Growth, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, AM

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008

The government is implementing news laws all the time in order to find ways to generate tax revenue, with little factual evidence backing up or validating the laws. I live in Washington State and tomorrow our second hands-free law of the year begins. Back on 1 January of this year...

Tags: Law, Policies And Procedures, Taxes, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Government, Free Trade, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Premium

The Steve Jobs PremiumWhat was so thoughtfull about ....... the Apple store's answer? They sold yopu a Belkin Cable that didn't work, recommended a cable they didn't have and then sent you off to radioshack to buy the cable you already looked at. it seems the RDF is...

Tags: Network technology, cable, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Steve Jobs Premium

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Premium

This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard. It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room. My search on the online Apple Store yielded only...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30