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• BI craves cheap horsepower
• 14 days ago
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  Analytic databases are the principal engines driving business intelligence (BI), delivering operational data into reports, dashboards, and ad-hoc queries.
  
  Essential as they may be, analytic databases have been largely overlooked in the BI industry’s recent consolidation spree. Sitting at the core of data warehouses (DWs) everywhere, these data stores have been treated as ...

• FOA v3 of 3
• 16 days ago
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  SOA’s strength is in its inner abstraction, its paradigmatic focus on the goal of maximizing sharing, reuse, and interoperability of key corporate resources over networks, thanks to open standards.
  
  SOA’s goals are laudable, but now we have the presentation, access, delivery, and socialization layers to consider. Socialization layer? You mean social networking? You mean w ...

• FOA v2 of 3
• 17 days ago
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  SOA’s failure isn’t so much a fault of the vision, as it is a reluctance to recognize that any particular middleware implementation will soon be obsoleted by something much grander, and fuzzier.
  
  Perfect example: SOA--which many of us have predicated on the notion of universal adherence to abstract interfaces that leverage XML and WS-* specifications--is gradually being a ...

• FOA v1 of 3
• 17 days ago
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  SOA’s fucked, some say, but I don’t hold with the naysayers.
  
  Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group has spread this notion that SOA’s a failure because few enterprises have come anywhere close to the nirvana of 100 percent service reuse. But my feeling is that that’s like saying democracy’s a failure because we’ve never come close to 100 percent voter turnout in any specific ...

• The R-Word Chronicles, Vol. *********
• 18 days ago
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  There comes a point when a recession just starts to drag. You’ve long since absorbed the shock. You’re tired of being reminded of it all. You dread the flatness of every new day. You’re more than ready to flatline the whole sorry experience and move on.
  We’re barely into our current recession and I didn't realize how sick I've become of it till this little bit of beauty popped ...