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- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreamsIt also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases become a commodity. They will be already are moving up the chain to applications.In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., Oracle Office, MySQL, database
- Discussion threads 2009-05-02
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Tags: data model, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- Why do you want WinFS?
- Why do you want WinFS?same questionI posted exactly the same question to AKH article talkback. It will be interesting to see the answers.This makes everything so easy, now.If MS doesn't deliver it, then it's not really a necessary technology or all that important.It makes life so much easier when every...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, WinFS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- RPG, PHP, and history
- While thinking through some of the comments recorded here as part of our discussion of development languages and environments I finally figured out what PHP reminds me of: RPG. RPG [Report generator] started out in the IBM 360 world as a report formatting aid, but never really...
- Tags: Application, PHP, IBM Corp., Codd, Productivity, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Telecommuting is good for all of us
- According to two Penn State researchers in management, telecommuting is good both for workers and their employers. The two psychologists looked at 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, covering 46 previous studies of telecommuting involving more than 12,000 employees. And they found that 'telecommuting is a win-win for...
- Tags: Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- The relational mistake
- The relational mistakeNot quiteA relation is a function between sets. Relations and sets are not synonymous, though a relation is a set. For example I take the set of all names and the set of all dates of birth and define a relation between them (note that this will give...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, database, SQL-DBMS, Codd, data store
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- 40 IT failures caused by software bugs
- 40 IT failures caused by software bugsDangerous logical bugs in widely used productsA while back the Life Insurance company debited my account twice in the same month luckily I had enough money on the account cover it.A large US supermarket chain debited a large number of customers debit and credit...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, information technology, SQL, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Scaling out like Technorati
- My fellow World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, was also in Dalian, China for the “Meeting of New Champions†or “Summer Davos†as the Chinese like to call it. During Davos in January, I had the great misfortune of pitching Alfresco against Technorati in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Technorati, Data, Blog, User, JN, DS, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Is Relational Relevant?We're doomed...Does no one care about data integrity anymore?Or systems based on sound mathematical principals?Good blog, BTW.Great Blog! I agree that MySQL is poised to grow here. We will figure outhow to manage the miss-match between the newer data/applications and the data store. The question is how to...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, relational model, SQL, SAP AG, database
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Information Management, Database
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Open source and business pleasure vs. business pain
- Open source and business pleasure vs. business painSell on the + instead of the - ....Maybe the industry needs a wake up call since they have seem to have forgotten about the most important part of the business chain, which of course would be the customer.MySQL is NOT relational"Examples are...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, business pleasure, business pain, SQL-DBMS
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Why the Sharp languages still matter
- Its been a while since Microsoft has talked publicly about the # Sharp programming languages under development by its research unit. But the silence doesnt mean nothings been happening. Elements of the Sharps -- F#, Spec#, X# now known as C Omega, all of which build on top of...
- Tags: Database, SQL Server, Development tools, Visual Studio Orcas, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Out of context patterns
- Out of context patternsDabbleDB instead of SQL?On Janurary 19, Jon Udell interviewed the folks at DabbleDB and discussed the problem of SQL's limited horizon that you mentioned and how an emergent style of database interaction might help, at: http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/01/19/a-conversation-with-avi-bryant-and-andrew-catton-about-dabble-db/Why the point about SQL?What's you're reasoning behind it? Sure, SQL...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, SQL, domain expert
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free version
- MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free versionwolf in sheep's clothingWhat walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, guess what its a duck.MySQL and RedHat are wolves who think they can get by, by disguising as sheeps. However it doesnt take long before the wolf behavior...
- Tags: Databases, driver issue, MySQL, open source, GPL, GPL V3, duck, GPLv3
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- Normalization Theory for XML
- With the development of the Web, new data models have started to play a more prominent role. In particular, XML eXtensible Markup Language has emerged as the standard data model for storing and interchanging data on the Web. As more companies adopt XML as the primary data model for storing...
- Tags: Theory, Data Model, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Web or client-server, Part 1
- Student information systems continue to evolve, with many moving to a web-based interface for managing student, school, and district data. While this has obvious benefits, many vendors are choosing to maintain client-server or, more and more frequently, Windows Terminal Services/Citrix Presentation Server implementations. Many early systems relied on proprietary...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Course management software, Web browser, client-server
- Blog posts 2006-11-11
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?
- In writing WinFS R.I.P., my fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant devotes sufficient text and linkage to what to many appears to be the death of WinFS: the supposedly revolutionary new Windows file system that Microsoft can't seem to shrink wrap and get out the door. Wrote Orchant: ...
- Tags: WinFS
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Explaining disconnect between women, video games
- Explaining disconnect between women, video gamesNice theory, but wrong I thinkI think the real reason why women don't play video games is that there's something obsessive about playing a game for hours and hours, and women are not obsessive. Men generally are. Take role-playing games such as Morrowind: there's not...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Games, women, game, sister, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2006-06-10
- IBM plays XML card in effort to beat Oracle
- IBM plays XML card in effort to beat OracleOh dear...This technology basically encourages hack developers who have not yet grokked that the relational model is the _only_ complete data model that's commercially available.XML has no referential integrity - any document can point to any other document. After reading IBM's...
- Tags: XML, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-08
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