<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964</id><updated>2012-01-15T06:07:52.400-08:00</updated><title type='text'>BI News in a New York Minute</title><subtitle type='html'>Handpicked Business Intelligence tidbits for people on the go.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' 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style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"If one query includes comments and another doesn’t, they can end up with different query plans and different performance." - Wow, who wouldda thunk?!? -- &lt;a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/11/simon-sabins-talk-on-query-performance/"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4672339354780936074?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4672339354780936074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4672339354780936074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-query-performance-insight-for-sql.html' title='Great Query Performance Insight for SQL Server.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8097382229225683505</id><published>2009-11-22T07:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T07:59:12.701-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MSFT Blesses Coffing DW (or funky news about SQL Server MPP)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/12171"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8097382229225683505?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' 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style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Next week in SF -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/20PkkD"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7779074582360564045?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7779074582360564045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7779074582360564045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/may-dreamforce-be-with-us-all.html' title='May the (Dream)Force be with us all...'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4662100975437283178</id><published>2009-11-14T10:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T10:29:32.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting Take on Oracle Support these Days.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Wow, surprising. &lt;a href="http://dbasrus.blogspot.com/2009/11/quite-frankly-warticki-you-should.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4662100975437283178?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4662100975437283178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4662100975437283178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/interesting-take-on-oracle-support.html' title='Interesting Take on Oracle Support these Days.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5171500783933844330</id><published>2009-11-14T10:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T10:24:04.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Aster Trying to Morph into an App Server(ice)?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.tonybain.com/tony_bain/2009/11/aster-datas-breakaway-move.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5171500783933844330?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5171500783933844330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5171500783933844330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-aster-trying-to-morph-into-app.html' title='Is Aster Trying to Morph into an App Server(ice)?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2923864470590535971</id><published>2009-11-14T10:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T10:10:49.366-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Faut-il basculer les traitements analytiques dans le data warehouse?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Personally, I'd say "no" but I must admit it sounds a lot better in French! :) -- &lt;a href="http://www.legrandbi.com/2009/11/traitements-analytiques-data-warehouse/"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2923864470590535971?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Interesting debunking piece -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2Gfkir"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4139346997352060791?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4139346997352060791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4139346997352060791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/myth-and-cloud-in-same-sentenceagain.html' title='&quot;Myth&quot; and &quot;Cloud&quot; in the same Sentence...Again.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4246800087443290851</id><published>2009-11-14T10:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T10:00:46.516-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Blue Pill or the Red Pill?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;NoSQL vs. Relational - &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/l5gHz"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4246800087443290851?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4246800087443290851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4246800087443290851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/blue-pill-or-red-pill.html' title='The Blue Pill or the Red Pill?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-52638081386483112</id><published>2009-11-14T09:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T09:53:00.729-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Database Architechs Plugs ParAccel</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;They'll spread the ParAccel way throughout the world -- &lt;a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Paraccel-1075367.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-52638081386483112?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/52638081386483112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/52638081386483112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/database-architechs-plugs-paraccel.html' title='Database Architechs Plugs ParAccel'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4150069422527912665</id><published>2009-11-14T09:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T09:50:46.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'>QlikView has a Pint</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Carlsberg and QV concoct a brew -- &lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3192994.htm"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4150069422527912665?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4150069422527912665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4150069422527912665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/qlikview-has-pint.html' title='QlikView has a Pint'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-958639152189053286</id><published>2009-11-14T09:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T09:45:34.956-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Google sells you 16TB for 4 grand in the cloud</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;So, what mechanisms exist to push my data up there though? (not that I have 16TBs but...) &amp;nbsp;-- &lt;a href="http://tlt.fandm.edu/2009/11/14/google-offers-a-16-terabyte-cloud-drive-for-4096-a-year/"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-958639152189053286?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/958639152189053286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/958639152189053286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-sells-you-16tb-for-4-grand-in.html' title='Google sells you 16TB for 4 grand in the cloud'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4243967453160337870</id><published>2009-11-13T10:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:41:30.403-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Datallegro -&gt; Madison -&gt; "Parallel Data Warehouse Edition" of SQL Server</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's sure been a loooong road --&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/3ib2wm"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4243967453160337870?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4243967453160337870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4243967453160337870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/datallegro-madison-parallel-data.html' title='Datallegro -&gt; Madison -&gt; &quot;Parallel Data Warehouse Edition&quot; of SQL Server'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1030399661761886661</id><published>2009-11-13T10:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:35:27.856-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Email Archiving in the Cloud: Hot.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;“Our research indicates that the easiest way to justify an IT investment in the next 24 months is to provide a reduction in operating costs,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. - DUH? -- &lt;a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/11893.html?rss"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1030399661761886661?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1030399661761886661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1030399661761886661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/email-archiving-in-cloud-hot.html' title='Email Archiving in the Cloud: Hot.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3760552935665178976</id><published>2009-11-13T10:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:33:11.775-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HP gobbles up 3COM</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Gee and I thought they were gonna do Teradata but...at least I can stick post-its on my HP lappy now -- &lt;a href="http://www.ebizq.net/news/11895.html?rss"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3760552935665178976?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3760552935665178976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3760552935665178976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/hp-gobbles-up-3com.html' title='HP gobbles up 3COM'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7047409528727892020</id><published>2009-11-13T10:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:27:50.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rolling your own ETL tools: Talk to the Hand!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Interesting two-part DI post -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2ImCfE"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7047409528727892020?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7047409528727892020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7047409528727892020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/rolling-your-own-etl-tools-talk-to-hand.html' title='Rolling your own ETL tools: Talk to the Hand!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3840021862150900785</id><published>2009-11-13T10:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:24:13.587-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Windows Azure TCO Calculator</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Krishnan Subramanian: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I was never excited about anything Microsoft offered in the past&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;..." Kinda brutal, but at least he likes Azure -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/23tdj7"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3840021862150900785?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3840021862150900785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3840021862150900785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/windows-azure-tco-calculator.html' title='Windows Azure TCO Calculator'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1256124608023152855</id><published>2009-11-13T10:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:19:40.384-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ragged Hierarchies in MDX - Huh, yeah doesn't everyone know that? :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;MDX Guru Chris Webb learned something (so we all do) -- &lt;a href="http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!5319.entry"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1256124608023152855?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1256124608023152855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1256124608023152855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/ragged-hierarchies-in-mdx-huh-yeah.html' title='Ragged Hierarchies in MDX - Huh, yeah doesn&apos;t everyone know that? :)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7413596844895506882</id><published>2009-11-13T10:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:17:42.029-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Major Tech Buckets in EDW/BI for 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything left out? --&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/linstedt/archives/2009/11/edwbi_-_whats_n.php"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7413596844895506882?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7413596844895506882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7413596844895506882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/major-tech-buckets-in-edwbi-for-2010.html' title='Major Tech Buckets in EDW/BI for 2010'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5682022603827322084</id><published>2009-11-13T10:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:15:15.791-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The British are Still Coming!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Kognitio does analytics in their own cloud - &lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/12093"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5682022603827322084?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5682022603827322084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5682022603827322084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/11/british-are-still-coming.html' title='The British are Still Coming!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1336759263852583344</id><published>2009-10-19T22:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T22:22:25.751-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JDBC/ODBC for Cloud Services? Now there's a concept.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2Bacgb"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1336759263852583344?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1336759263852583344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1336759263852583344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/jdbcodbc-for-cloud-services-now-theres.html' title='JDBC/ODBC for Cloud Services? Now there&apos;s a concept.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3007059980631432537</id><published>2009-10-19T22:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T22:17:57.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Storage Picture From EMC's Chuck Hollis</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Insightful as usual. -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4ASbiB"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3007059980631432537?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3007059980631432537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3007059980631432537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/storage-picture-from-emcs-chuck-hollis.html' title='The Storage Picture From EMC&apos;s Chuck Hollis'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1472864186300032548</id><published>2009-10-19T22:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T22:11:07.085-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From now on, we shall call him...PowerPivot!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Microsoft Gemini gets a new name. -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2MsmM8"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1472864186300032548?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1472864186300032548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1472864186300032548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-now-on-we-shall-call-himpowerpivot.html' title='From now on, we shall call him...PowerPivot!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2708473679213135065</id><published>2009-10-19T22:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T22:08:09.574-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teradata does GIS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/3DCrjU"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2708473679213135065?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2708473679213135065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2708473679213135065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/teradata-does-gis.html' title='Teradata does GIS'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1750979551025144434</id><published>2009-10-19T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T09:11:35.289-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teradata coming out with a vengence on the ground and in the skies (cloud)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"the company has been testing its cloud offering with customers like eBay for a year". &amp;nbsp;Isn't that Greenplum land though? -- &lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25942"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1750979551025144434?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1750979551025144434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1750979551025144434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/teradata-coming-out-with-vengence-on.html' title='Teradata coming out with a vengence on the ground and in the skies (cloud)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7441201510117600879</id><published>2009-10-19T08:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:37:28.672-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Must be Freebie Week - Now MicroStategy is offering free stuff as well.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I probably didn't get the memo... --&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2VaNx8"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7441201510117600879?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7441201510117600879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7441201510117600879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/must-be-freebie-week-now-microstategy.html' title='Must be Freebie Week - Now MicroStategy is offering free stuff as well.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8554308248925040905</id><published>2009-10-19T08:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:28:18.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenplum, massive grid player, will give you one FREE node while they last.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2009/10/19/greenplum-free-single-node-edition/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8554308248925040905?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8554308248925040905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8554308248925040905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/greenplum-massive-grid-player-will-give.html' title='Greenplum, massive grid player, will give you one FREE node while they last.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5075594670695742417</id><published>2009-10-19T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:23:40.097-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SQL Server in the sky...with diamonds.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/qdyzB"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5075594670695742417?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5075594670695742417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5075594670695742417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/sql-server-in-skywith-diamonds.html' title='SQL Server in the sky...with diamonds.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1723169982392045266</id><published>2009-10-19T08:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:21:08.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Plum with roll-your-own row or column is ready for picking.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3049904.htm"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1723169982392045266?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1723169982392045266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1723169982392045266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/plum-with-roll-your-own-row-or-column.html' title='The Plum with roll-your-own row or column is ready for picking.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2008626934645846433</id><published>2009-10-18T17:52:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:52:22.259-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vanilla 2.0 is breathing down Jaspersoft and Pentaho's necks in France</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Also in French but quite interesting nonetheless. -- &lt;a href="http://www.legrandbi.com/2009/10/vanilla-2-0/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2008626934645846433?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2008626934645846433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2008626934645846433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/vanilla-20-is-breathing-down-jaspersoft.html' title='Vanilla 2.0 is breathing down Jaspersoft and Pentaho&apos;s necks in France'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4253518127471398632</id><published>2009-10-18T17:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:49:29.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IBM opens new analytical R&amp;D center in NY's Fashion District (in French)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/1MrBuv"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4253518127471398632?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4253518127471398632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4253518127471398632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/ibm-opens-new-analytical-r-center-in.html' title='IBM opens new analytical R&amp;D center in NY&apos;s Fashion District (in French)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1068907965356790162</id><published>2009-10-18T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:47:50.601-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prolific posting going on at DBMS2 this weekend.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Curt Monash covers everything from Greenplum to SenSage, via MapReduce (again) and about Splunk -- &lt;a href="http://www.dbms2.com/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1068907965356790162?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1068907965356790162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1068907965356790162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/prolific-posting-going-on-at-dbms2-this.html' title='Prolific posting going on at DBMS2 this weekend.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1067337443476562744</id><published>2009-10-18T17:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:43:48.141-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teradata Partners Conference underway in DC.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/20Rsra"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1067337443476562744?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1067337443476562744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1067337443476562744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/teradata-partners-conference-underway.html' title='Teradata Partners Conference underway in DC.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7996070113873678652</id><published>2009-10-18T08:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T08:48:56.441-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's all About Performance.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4s8pre"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7996070113873678652?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7996070113873678652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7996070113873678652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-all-about-performance.html' title='It&apos;s all About Performance.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3689646487143559013</id><published>2009-10-18T08:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T08:32:34.379-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kickfire capacity and pricing.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2009/10/18/kickfire-capacity-and-pricing/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3689646487143559013?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3689646487143559013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3689646487143559013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/kickfire-capacity-and-pricing.html' title='Kickfire capacity and pricing.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7335700190386429992</id><published>2009-10-17T08:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T08:38:20.182-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pentaho Reporting (not just) for Java Developers Book is Out</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Still, $40 for a book! -- &lt;a href="http://michaeltarallo.blogspot.com/2009/10/recovery-good-time-to-read-pentaho.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7335700190386429992?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7335700190386429992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7335700190386429992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/pentaho-reporting-not-just-for-java.html' title='Pentaho Reporting (not just) for Java Developers Book is Out'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1518592984118497494</id><published>2009-10-16T20:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T20:54:25.325-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenplum actually trademarked "Polymorphic Data Storage".</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3049904.htm"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1518592984118497494?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1518592984118497494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1518592984118497494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/greenplum-actually-trademarked.html' title='Greenplum actually trademarked &quot;Polymorphic Data Storage&quot;.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6962660065249766325</id><published>2009-10-16T10:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T10:32:02.335-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wanna Catch MySQL in the Act? Monitor it!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-option-2009-10-15/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6962660065249766325?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6962660065249766325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6962660065249766325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/wanna-catch-mysql-in-act-monitor-it.html' title='Wanna Catch MySQL in the Act? Monitor it!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5075911791226693574</id><published>2009-10-16T10:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T10:30:48.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Programmers should know math.. just not all of it</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Yeah, especially if they're BI industry programmers! -- &lt;a href="http://giorgiosironi.blogspot.com/2009/10/programmers-should-know-math-just-not.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5075911791226693574?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5075911791226693574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5075911791226693574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/programmers-should-know-math-just-not.html' title='Programmers should know math.. just not all of it'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6103076589313300602</id><published>2009-10-16T08:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T08:27:35.099-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hadoop, MAA, ML, MR and Performance Data</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Phew! -- &lt;a href="http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-data-hadoop-maa-ml-mr-and.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6103076589313300602?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6103076589313300602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6103076589313300602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/hadoop-maa-ml-mr-and-performance-data.html' title='Hadoop, MAA, ML, MR and Performance Data'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3187278598634134988</id><published>2009-10-16T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T08:23:11.539-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Openworld 2009 : BI Intelligente? Ou confusion intégrale? C'est à vous de Choisir.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.easyteam.fr/2009/10/16/openworld-2009-bi-intelligente/"&gt;A lire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3187278598634134988?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3187278598634134988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3187278598634134988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/openworld-2009-bi-intelligente-ou.html' title='Openworld 2009 : BI Intelligente? Ou confusion intégrale? C&apos;est à vous de Choisir.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2519116446418188354</id><published>2009-10-16T08:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T08:20:04.611-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In Business Intelligence, small vendors are better.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Hard to disagree on that one. -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4sTulm"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2519116446418188354?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2519116446418188354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2519116446418188354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-business-intelligence-small-vendors.html' title='In Business Intelligence, small vendors are better.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7839293487768591781</id><published>2009-10-16T08:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T08:09:43.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Data, Big Challenges.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;NYTimes: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;students from elite American universities are not trained well to work on the Internet-scale problems of tomorrow." Hum..DUH?!? -- &lt;a href="http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/21946"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7839293487768591781?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7839293487768591781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7839293487768591781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-data-big-challenges.html' title='Big Data, Big Challenges.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7367791776761968381</id><published>2009-10-16T08:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T08:05:20.657-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Looks like MSFT Azure is Fully Baked.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/sql-azure-now-feature-complete-for-pdc.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7367791776761968381?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7367791776761968381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7367791776761968381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/looks-like-msft-azure-is-fully-baked.html' title='Looks like MSFT Azure is Fully Baked.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4424116552307975149</id><published>2009-10-16T07:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:59:57.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Looks Like BigData Summit on 10/22 is Going to Need Bigger Space.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/boston-big-data-kickoff/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4424116552307975149?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4424116552307975149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4424116552307975149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/looks-like-bigdata-summit-on-1022-is.html' title='Looks Like BigData Summit on 10/22 is Going to Need Bigger Space.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8572759995441328302</id><published>2009-10-16T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:57:19.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Codd Worshipper on SSD in the Enterprise</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I love this guy. He's usually "in-your-face" -- &lt;a href="http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2009/10/shift-in-focus.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8572759995441328302?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8572759995441328302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8572759995441328302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/codd-worshipper-on-ssd-in-enterprise.html' title='Codd Worshipper on SSD in the Enterprise'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5882261698533822020</id><published>2009-10-16T07:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:52:50.964-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes They Really Do Take BI Seriously in France.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Article in French -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/3fwIzj"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5882261698533822020?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5882261698533822020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5882261698533822020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/yes-they-really-do-take-bi-seriously-in.html' title='Yes They Really Do Take BI Seriously in France.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1459205871494124299</id><published>2009-10-16T07:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:50:52.218-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Really Cool Information for DQ People.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4y4G34"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1459205871494124299?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1459205871494124299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1459205871494124299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/really-cool-information-for-dq-people.html' title='Really Cool Information for DQ People.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7826443907964480863</id><published>2009-10-16T07:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:47:52.475-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Honeymoon over? VCs Don't Like Obama No More...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4CP9y"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7826443907964480863?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7826443907964480863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7826443907964480863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/honeymoon-over-vcs-dont-like-obama-no.html' title='Honeymoon over? VCs Don&apos;t Like Obama No More...'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1368795084480698485</id><published>2009-10-16T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:45:04.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On Cloud Standards, Transparency and Data Mobility.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/353ai7"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1368795084480698485?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1368795084480698485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1368795084480698485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-cloud-standards-transparency-and.html' title='On Cloud Standards, Transparency and Data Mobility.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5049788653647890072</id><published>2009-10-16T07:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:42:26.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'>No, IKEA Does Not Sell SQL Server (or Azure subscriptions)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For a minute there, had me fooled. -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/Q9ain"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5049788653647890072?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5049788653647890072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5049788653647890072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-ikea-does-not-sell-sql-server-or.html' title='No, IKEA Does Not Sell SQL Server (or Azure subscriptions)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-760286982465623841</id><published>2009-10-16T07:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:40:10.148-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Building an Ad-Hoc SSAS Cube Browser in SSRS.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Cubes. Blah. -- &lt;a href="http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!5115.entry"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-760286982465623841?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/760286982465623841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/760286982465623841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/building-ad-hoc-ssas-cube-browser-in.html' title='Building an Ad-Hoc SSAS Cube Browser in SSRS.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2300169861295240246</id><published>2009-10-16T07:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:38:19.179-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 now released. Confused? You Will Be.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2fR9Wd"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2300169861295240246?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2300169861295240246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2300169861295240246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/performancepoint-server-2007-sp3-now.html' title='PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 now released. Confused? You Will Be.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3810234332145051138</id><published>2009-10-16T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T07:35:28.592-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"The business users don’t care; they just want results" - Illuminate makes headway</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;CDBMS (neither row nor column) database from Spain makes progress. -- &lt;a href="http://mervadrian.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/illuminate-may-be-gaining-traction/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3810234332145051138?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3810234332145051138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3810234332145051138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/business-users-dont-care-they-just-want.html' title='&quot;The business users don’t care; they just want results&quot; - Illuminate makes headway'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6828509914334265897</id><published>2009-10-15T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T20:45:56.427-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aster wants to teach you MapReduce</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Actually they had a decent educational webinar today. &lt;a href="http://www.asterdata.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/15/mastering-mapreduce/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6828509914334265897?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6828509914334265897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6828509914334265897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/aster-wants-to-teach-you-mapreduce.html' title='Aster wants to teach you MapReduce'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6009123363303116106</id><published>2009-10-14T17:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T17:03:57.654-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More on Greenplum's new row/col "hybridism" from the Master.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/greenplum-announces-column-oriented.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6009123363303116106?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6009123363303116106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6009123363303116106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-on-greenplums-new-rowcol-hybridism.html' title='More on Greenplum&apos;s new row/col &quot;hybridism&quot; from the Master.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1491979013348717081</id><published>2009-10-14T16:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T16:58:33.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From dirty bomb suitcases to data center suitcases? I prefer the second.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/10/14/exclusive-dell-shows-off-a-data-center-in-a-briefcase/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1491979013348717081?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1491979013348717081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1491979013348717081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-dirty-bomb-suitcases-to-data.html' title='From dirty bomb suitcases to data center suitcases? I prefer the second.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7209037934009435550</id><published>2009-10-14T16:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T16:56:39.534-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bob Zurek and Susan Davis Chat with Curt Monash about InfoBright</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Looks like InfoBright has around the same # of customers as Vertica. I bet you their marketing budget is way lower though. &lt;a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2009/10/14/infobright-notes/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7209037934009435550?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7209037934009435550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7209037934009435550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/bob-zurek-and-susan-davis-chat-with.html' title='Bob Zurek and Susan Davis Chat with Curt Monash about InfoBright'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6509980960015097620</id><published>2009-10-14T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T08:23:13.883-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Benefits of Storing Sorted Data (if you're columnar that is)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;After a long hiatus, Omer Trajman authors an entry on Vertica's blog -- &lt;a href="http://databasecolumn.vertica.com/2009/10/the_benefits_of_storing_sorted.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6509980960015097620?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6509980960015097620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6509980960015097620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/benefits-of-storing-sorted-data-if.html' title='The Benefits of Storing Sorted Data (if you&apos;re columnar that is)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7577327599225339962</id><published>2009-10-14T08:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T08:09:52.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenplum joins "PAX Analytica" Movement.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2009/10/14/greenplum-hybrid-columnar/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7577327599225339962?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7577327599225339962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7577327599225339962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/greenplum-joins-pax-analytica-movement.html' title='Greenplum joins &quot;PAX Analytica&quot; Movement.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3022283084200435175</id><published>2009-10-14T08:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T08:06:51.042-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3022283084200435175?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3022283084200435175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3022283084200435175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/state-of-solid-state-hard-drives.html' title='The State of Solid State Hard Drives'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4285145697801179438</id><published>2009-10-14T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T08:01:34.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ParAccel expands it's Cash 4 Clunkers program due to popular demand.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/11767"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4285145697801179438?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4285145697801179438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4285145697801179438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/paraccel-expands-its-cash-4-clunkers.html' title='ParAccel expands it&apos;s Cash 4 Clunkers program due to popular demand.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5283123549537696433</id><published>2009-10-13T14:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T14:01:45.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Facebook has 30,000 servers and 25TB of daily log data (did I mention "daily"?)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/28GRdh"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5283123549537696433?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5283123549537696433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5283123549537696433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/facebook-has-30000-servers-and-25tb-of.html' title='Facebook has 30,000 servers and 25TB of daily log data (did I mention &quot;daily&quot;?)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-412131495142713308</id><published>2009-10-13T13:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T13:58:52.148-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When is it too late for a (kickass) developer to learn SQL? Never!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Sam Gentile embraces SQL (thanks to LINQ) after decades of leaky abstractions. -- &lt;a href="http://samgentile.com/Web/linq/focusing-on-data-ndash-try-3/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-412131495142713308?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/412131495142713308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/412131495142713308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-is-it-too-late-for-kickass.html' title='When is it too late for a (kickass) developer to learn SQL? Never!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-841569764569928288</id><published>2009-10-13T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T13:50:40.092-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IBM Unveils "M2" a Mashup-driven SaaS Text Mining Service</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's called Massive Mashups and the applications are fairly astonishing. French blog post is well worth translating. -- &lt;a href="http://www.legrandbi.com/2009/10/ibm-jstart-m2-text-mining/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-841569764569928288?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/841569764569928288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/841569764569928288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/ibm-unveils-m2-mashup-driven-saas-text.html' title='IBM Unveils &quot;M2&quot; a Mashup-driven SaaS Text Mining Service'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6560077167933038996</id><published>2009-10-13T08:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T08:48:28.608-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slowly-Changing Dimensions and the Wailing Wall...Oy Vey.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Really good prez on SCDs included -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/YLFcv"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6560077167933038996?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6560077167933038996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6560077167933038996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/slowly-changing-dimensions-and-wailing.html' title='Slowly-Changing Dimensions and the Wailing Wall...Oy Vey.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2966071907731608247</id><published>2009-10-13T08:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T08:04:39.261-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Good Data Adds Andreessen Horowitz to Venture Investors, Tim O’Reilly Joins Board of Directors</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And another $2.5M katching! for this upcoming disruptive SaaS BI player. -- &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/XFhMh"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2966071907731608247?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2966071907731608247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2966071907731608247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/good-data-adds-andreessen-horowitz-to.html' title='Good Data Adds Andreessen Horowitz to Venture Investors, Tim O’Reilly Joins Board of Directors'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5989103854862197047</id><published>2009-10-13T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T07:57:41.695-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ETL and Data Test Guidelines for Large Apps - It Pays to Read the Manual.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2rQYcx"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5989103854862197047?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5989103854862197047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5989103854862197047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/etl-and-data-test-guidelines-for-large.html' title='ETL and Data Test Guidelines for Large Apps - It Pays to Read the Manual.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6645559989550493128</id><published>2009-10-13T07:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T07:53:25.931-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Looks like Proclarity Went the "Groove" Way</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/4qurHo"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6645559989550493128?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6645559989550493128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6645559989550493128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/looks-like-proclarity-went-groove-way.html' title='Looks like Proclarity Went the &quot;Groove&quot; Way'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8695949723732232532</id><published>2009-10-12T21:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T21:43:57.811-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In SaaS the Second 'S' is about Service - Hint: Choose Wisely</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/ln0Bg"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8695949723732232532?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8695949723732232532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8695949723732232532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-saas-second-s-is-about-service-hint.html' title='In SaaS the Second &apos;S&apos; is about Service - Hint: Choose Wisely'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7411765965861007645</id><published>2009-10-12T16:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T16:28:57.912-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cloud Computing and the Dearth of "Experts"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;If you really grok cloud computing guess what, you can call your own shots. &amp;nbsp;(warning: included video is not politically correct) --&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/11742"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Read&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7411765965861007645?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7411765965861007645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7411765965861007645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/cloud-computing-and-dearth-of-experts.html' title='Cloud Computing and the Dearth of &quot;Experts&quot;'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-763696692926962364</id><published>2009-10-12T16:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T16:24:03.888-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Simba Does MDX for Oracle OLAP</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/11742"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-763696692926962364?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/763696692926962364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/763696692926962364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/simba-does-mdx-for-oracle-olap.html' title='Simba Does MDX for Oracle OLAP'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7973692945575110579</id><published>2009-10-12T16:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T16:15:32.150-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What McNealy and Al Gore Have in Common (hint: they both invented stuff)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25825"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7973692945575110579?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7973692945575110579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7973692945575110579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-mcnealy-and-al-gore-have-in-common.html' title='What McNealy and Al Gore Have in Common (hint: they both invented stuff)'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6413379043866922700</id><published>2009-10-12T14:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T14:10:38.508-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sun (oops, I mean Oracle) Does Big Honking Flash Array.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;2 TB of SSD now available. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/3DIskX"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6413379043866922700?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6413379043866922700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6413379043866922700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/sun-oops-i-mean-oracle-does-big-honking.html' title='Sun (oops, I mean Oracle) Does Big Honking Flash Array.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7750744197152363386</id><published>2009-10-12T14:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T14:04:07.329-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dell Becomes Salesforce.com Channel Partner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Given the number of BI SaaS players tapping into SF data for additional (or niftier) analysis, this is good news. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinkstrategies.com/blog/2009/10/dell-becomes-salesforcecom-channel-partner.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Read&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7750744197152363386?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7750744197152363386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7750744197152363386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/dell-becomes-salesforcecom-channel.html' title='Dell Becomes Salesforce.com Channel Partner'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5268251618074108454</id><published>2009-10-12T13:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T13:29:27.040-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Did you Know 80% of Indian Banks Were Running Oracle?  Namaste!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/00001274.htm"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5268251618074108454?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5268251618074108454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5268251618074108454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/did-you-know-80-of-indian-banks-were.html' title='Did you Know 80% of Indian Banks Were Running Oracle?  Namaste!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7114062524821870955</id><published>2009-10-12T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T12:10:12.771-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Do They Make Viagra for VCs?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Seems the keyword here is "anemic" - &lt;a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/10/12/venture-capitalists-need-money-too/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7114062524821870955?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7114062524821870955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7114062524821870955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-they-make-viagra-for-vcs.html' title='Do They Make Viagra for VCs?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-710936795702457044</id><published>2009-10-12T12:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T12:08:10.193-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Profound Quotes from Larry at OOW</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/10/12/3-reasons-why-i-love-larry-the-oracle/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-710936795702457044?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/710936795702457044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/710936795702457044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-profound-quotes-from-larry-at-oow.html' title='Some Profound Quotes from Larry at OOW'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3935087683976967849</id><published>2009-10-12T11:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T11:59:15.548-07:00</updated><title type='text'>QlikView Scores Yet Another OEM Deal</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;QlikView (and Gene Simmons!) should be proud! &lt;a href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/11693"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3935087683976967849?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3935087683976967849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3935087683976967849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/qlikview-scores-yet-another-oem-deal.html' title='QlikView Scores Yet Another OEM Deal'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4825489267732903106</id><published>2009-10-12T11:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T11:56:00.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'>InfoBright is (still) pushing hard in Europe</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A smorgasbord of European clients. &amp;nbsp;Now it's a Scandinavian telecom. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://ca.sys-con.com/node/1140315"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4825489267732903106?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4825489267732903106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4825489267732903106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/infobright-is-still-pushing-hard-in.html' title='InfoBright is (still) pushing hard in Europe'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-4915851805393773275</id><published>2009-10-12T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T11:52:51.144-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kognitio releases WX2 7.0 - Splendid Mate!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;British new-breeder who coined DaaS (did they?) releases new version of its engine. &lt;a href="http://www.kognitio.com/news/pressreleases/index.php?id=85"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-4915851805393773275?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4915851805393773275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/4915851805393773275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/kognitio-releases-wx2-70-splendid-mate.html' title='Kognitio releases WX2 7.0 - Splendid Mate!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-198985549899046038</id><published>2009-10-12T08:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T08:56:15.104-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tidbits from OOW 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Looking like 37-40,000 people have shown up for this event.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-198985549899046038?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/198985549899046038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/198985549899046038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/tidbits-from-oow-2009_9269.html' title='Tidbits from OOW 2009'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7156724378512831703</id><published>2009-10-12T08:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T08:53:45.434-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tidbits from OOW 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Oracle devs are 20,000 strong - wow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7156724378512831703?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7156724378512831703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7156724378512831703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/tidbits-from-oow-2009_12.html' title='Tidbits from OOW 2009'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-2734495807773323508</id><published>2009-10-12T08:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T08:52:47.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tidbits from OOW 2009</title><content type='html'>O&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;racle spends 3 billion in R+D and 40 billion in acquired R&amp;amp;D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-2734495807773323508?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2734495807773323508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/2734495807773323508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/tidbits-from-oow-2009.html' title='Tidbits from OOW 2009'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5760760522073860561</id><published>2009-10-11T15:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T15:17:21.971-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pentaho and Jaspersoft are duking it out!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Julian Hyde (Pentaho) and Sherman Wood (Jaspersoft) are duking it in the comments section following Julian's latest blog. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://julianhyde.blogspot.com/2009/10/pentaho-analyzer.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5760760522073860561?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5760760522073860561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5760760522073860561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/pentaho-and-jaspersoft-are-duking-it.html' title='Pentaho and Jaspersoft are duking it out!'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-332450687558316348</id><published>2009-10-11T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T11:09:52.262-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is JasperSoft a Good Citizen of the Open Source Community?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Informative post on the Pentaho-Lucidera "marriage" and OSS in general. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/WQK2n"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-332450687558316348?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/332450687558316348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/332450687558316348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-jaspersoft-good-citizen-of-open.html' title='Is JasperSoft a Good Citizen of the Open Source Community?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8783300219650784914</id><published>2009-10-11T09:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T09:18:01.597-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenplum Promises "another industry-changing innovation" on Oct. 19th</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;According to their website, you'll be able to "Fly Free" - Whatever that means.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenplum.com/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8783300219650784914?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8783300219650784914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8783300219650784914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/greenplum-promises-another-industry.html' title='Greenplum Promises &quot;another industry-changing innovation&quot; on Oct. 19th'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-859826675320095088</id><published>2009-10-11T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T08:45:56.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MySpace Architecture Considered Expensive.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Personally, I thought they had ripped WCF out of their infrastructure already (scalability issues) and gone OSS strategically on many of the pieces but...This is not the same department who is using AsterData :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.udidahan.com/2009/10/09/myspace-architecture-considered-expensive/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-859826675320095088?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/859826675320095088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/859826675320095088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/myspace-architecture-considered.html' title='MySpace Architecture Considered Expensive.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7491729035293749422</id><published>2009-10-11T08:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T08:17:24.170-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MySQL Availability (HA) Might be in the Eye of the Beholder</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2xg3x2"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7491729035293749422?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7491729035293749422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7491729035293749422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/mysql-availability-ha-might-be-in-eye.html' title='MySQL Availability (HA) Might be in the Eye of the Beholder'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1023630494300580587</id><published>2009-10-11T08:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T08:13:28.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SSD is a comin'.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/jMnTR"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1023630494300580587?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1023630494300580587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1023630494300580587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/ssd-is-comin.html' title='SSD is a comin&apos;.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3120942668703266856</id><published>2009-10-10T19:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T19:26:49.245-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Want to really understand BI and DW? This is the only book you need.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/Z2S85"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3120942668703266856?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3120942668703266856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3120942668703266856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/want-to-really-understand-bi-and-dw.html' title='Want to really understand BI and DW? This is the only book you need.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3306081535301422114</id><published>2009-10-10T19:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T19:03:27.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Microsoft in "acquire crap" mode?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: #272727; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Microsoft&amp;nbsp;acquired&amp;nbsp;Danger for $500 million in February 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #272727; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Microsoft also acquired Datallegro for around $300M a couple years ago...Warm feeling isn't it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272727; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272727; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/gZUBc"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272727; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3306081535301422114?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3306081535301422114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3306081535301422114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-microsoft-in-acquire-crap-mode.html' title='Is Microsoft in &quot;acquire crap&quot; mode?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-8943449781480475473</id><published>2009-10-10T17:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T17:40:13.118-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When the Ingres Lion Roars.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/3P2zI9"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-8943449781480475473?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8943449781480475473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/8943449781480475473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-ingres-lion-roars.html' title='When the Ingres Lion Roars.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-3748420828484022974</id><published>2009-10-10T17:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T17:17:06.596-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When Cloud Fails: T-Mobile, Microsoft Lose Sidekick Customer Data.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Ok, so I think you're more likely to lose your data by forgetting your phone at the TSA checkpoint but... &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/LB9cS"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-3748420828484022974?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3748420828484022974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/3748420828484022974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-cloud-fails-t-mobile-microsoft.html' title='When Cloud Fails: T-Mobile, Microsoft Lose Sidekick Customer Data.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5398912056689790046</id><published>2009-10-10T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T17:00:43.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Go BABI go! BI for Business Analysts by SiSense</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/xJg0O"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5398912056689790046?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5398912056689790046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5398912056689790046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/go-babi-go-bi-for-business-analysts-by.html' title='Go BABI go! BI for Business Analysts by SiSense'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-6379367453039708849</id><published>2009-10-10T16:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T16:38:40.043-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How Gazelle manages data "really good".</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Really cool green-enabling company using Gooddata to analyze its boatloads of data. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.gooddata.com/blog/gazelle-changing-the-world-one-dashboard-at-a-time/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-6379367453039708849?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6379367453039708849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/6379367453039708849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-gazelle-manages-data-really-good.html' title='How Gazelle manages data &quot;really good&quot;.'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-7908923920448695336</id><published>2009-10-10T16:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T16:34:24.654-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ParAccel CEO on Exadata's OLTP/OLAP medley: Get Real..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://esj.com/Articles/2009/09/29/Exadata-Demand.aspx?Page=1"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-7908923920448695336?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7908923920448695336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/7908923920448695336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/paraccel-ceo-on-exadatas-oltpolap.html' title='ParAccel CEO on Exadata&apos;s OLTP/OLAP medley: Get Real..'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-733332533413995089</id><published>2009-10-10T16:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T16:08:10.096-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Wouldda Thunk Ingres Had a Marketing Bone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Not exactly news but funny enough to mention: Ingres actually made a video at one point in time! &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNxq0L0z2As"&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-733332533413995089?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/733332533413995089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/733332533413995089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/who-wouldda-thunk-ingres-had-marketing.html' title='Who Wouldda Thunk Ingres Had a Marketing Bone?'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-5121051546953964353</id><published>2009-10-10T16:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T16:04:31.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French IT BigWigs talk about BI</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;French IT bigwigs discuss the state of BI (front-end, not platform) in France (there's a really interesting report PDF at the end). &amp;nbsp;However it is in French so either learn French (low value) or translate it :) - &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2eIgLd"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-5121051546953964353?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5121051546953964353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/5121051546953964353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/french-it-bigwigs-talk-about-bi.html' title='French IT BigWigs talk about BI'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwiKI_LvL9Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADM4/61o4i8R6qGI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388190111157453964.post-1825754707094915130</id><published>2009-10-10T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T15:35:25.545-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) and Partitioning</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;MySQL, partitioning and multi-tenancy for the SaaS crowd. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/u5LL5"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/388190111157453964-1825754707094915130?l=biminute.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1825754707094915130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/388190111157453964/posts/default/1825754707094915130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://biminute.blogspot.com/2009/10/enterprise-software-as-service-saas-and.html' title='Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) and Partitioning'/><author><name>Jerome Pineau</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' 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