In a not-so-shocking move,this week Microsoft announced that it was dropping support for the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) on Linux and other Unix operating systems. Microsoft acquired the FAST ESP and related products in January 2008 via the $1.2B acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, a financially troubled but nevertheless leading enterprise search [...]
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Microsoft / Fast Drops Linux and Unix Support. Should You Turn to MarkLogic As A Replacement?
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Fast Search and Transfer · Microsoft · fast search
Dear CIO: Stop Writing Big Checks for Commodity (Database) Software
October 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Dear CIO, What’s wrong this picture? At 50%+, Oracle’s operating margins have never been higher The differentiation of Oracle’s database technology, however, has never been lower and the number of both core and specialized alternatives has never been greater. So what’s going on? You, kind Sir or Madam, are being milked. What’s worse is that [...]
Tags: Database · Database management system · IBM · Microsoft · MySQL · Open source · Oracle
How I Want My News: TimesReader vs. Bloglines vs. … vs. Outlook?
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I finally got tired of Bloglines this weekend and bit the bullet, figured out how to export my feed list in OPML and import it into other readers. That, plus some playing around with TimesReader, got me thinking about how I want my news, in the end with a pretty unanticipated result. First, let’s talk [...]
Tags: Blogging · Google · Microsoft · News and Media · RSS · Twitter
Yahoo Breaks $19. What *Were* They Thinking?
September 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Check out this article in Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget Remember when Yahoo haughtily rejected Microsoft’s $31 per share offer for the company as “massively undervalued”? Those were the days. Yahoo closed at $18.75, it’s lowest level in five years. For those who don’t care to recall, that’s below where it was trading when [...]
Microsoft Kickoff Videos: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My guess is you’d need be under 25 to have missed the Dean Scream of Microsoft videos, this gem of a few years ago featuring a bouncing Steve Balmer at what I’m guessing is an annual kickoff. Now, say what you will, but I’ll take genuine enthusiasm on the part of a slightly crazed, middle-aged, [...]
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