On Wednesday, January 6th, 2010, Mark Logic will host a webinar where two of Mark Logic‘s XQuery experts will respond to Oracle’s recently published white paper (PDF) which attacks Mark Logic and its implementation of XQuery. The webinar features: Mary Holstege, PhD. Principal Engineer at Mark Logic and member of the W3C XQuery and XML [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Oracle'
Mark Logic Hosts Webinar to Respond to Oracle XQuery Attack
December 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Oracle · XQuery · webinar
Quick Thoughts on the Oracle Hatchet Job on Mark Logic
December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments
It’s one way to know “we’ve arrived,” I suppose. You can now find, on the very first link under “technical information” on Oracle’s XML DB homepage a link to an Oracle-authored comparison white paper (and I use the term loosely) that compares Oracle 11g XML DB to Mark Logic Server. There’s a lot to say [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · Oracle · RDBMS · XML · XQuery · native XML
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
Why Mark Logic Isn’t Bigger Than Oracle. Or Is It?
September 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
I had a great meeting with a Silicon Valley technology executive this afternoon. He was a very clever chap with all the right credentials: an engineering master’s, a top MBA, experience at Google. The works. He asked us the standard set of questions that tech executives do. Is this a database or search engine? (Yes. [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · Oracle
XQuery’s Real Potential: Transforming Application Development
July 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Oracle’s Daniela Florescu gave a talk at UC Irvine this May entitled The Magic Is In The Glue: XQuery + Cloud. A coworker pointed me to the slides here, which I thought I’d share in a more convenient SlideShare-based format and agree with violently in more than a few respects. First, let’s excerpt the abstract [...]
Tags: Oracle · XQuery · cloud computing · top-to-bottom XML
