SaaS
[Revised, rewritten, and replacing a post from yesterday] One question we encounter with our Information and Media customers is whether they should buy MarkLogic Server and build an application on top of it, or use a SaaS offering (which may or may not be based on MarkLogic) and effectively rent
I found this post, entitled Some of Oracle's Largest Warehouses, on the DBMS2 blog and I thought I'd re-sort them by size in descending order. So, here they are: Quoting Curt: Exadata While I know it's a bit unfair to compare contentbases with databases
VC
I've had several people ask me what it's like to run a venture-backed start-up with the current mess on Wall Street. My short answer, from a financing point of view, is that "not much has changed." You can see why if you look at
Below please see the slides from the presentation I gave today at the Outsell Signature Event at the lovely Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California. I'm passionate about agile development because I've simply seen too many waterfall train wrecks that either kill companies (e.g.
After reading literally scores of articles about the recent Wall Street crises, I recommend this one from today's Week in Review section of the New York Times. Entitled simply Bubblenomics, I think it is the best I've read from both an overall and investor viewpoint. Excerpt:
Silicon Valley
While it's taken me a while to post on this Wall St Journal article, it's still as relevant today as it was back in July. The article discusses the recent dearth of IPOs, arguing that the long-closed IPO window is changing the way startups think about
People sometimes ask: what's the argument for special-purpose databases like MarkLogic, as opposed to general-purpose databases like DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server? While I have written much on this topic, in the end I think it boils down to one word: performance. The big 3 database oligopoly have
Seedcamp, a London-based, week-long camp for European entrepreneurs recently did an interesting exercise. They took the several hundred applications they received for their event and made tagclouds. Here's what they found. What are you creating? How will you make money? What tools will you use? (I'd
Back in June, Paul Krugman wrote a nice op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled Bits, Bands, and Books which looks at the changes in the information and media business (e.g., publishing, music) and compares them to what I call the Grateful Dead business model. Having been to,
I've already spent a lot of space covering the financial issues at Fast Search & Transfer. In part that was because, prior to the Microsoft acquisition, we competed fairly often with Fast, particularly in our publishing practice. Part was because the company reminded me of MicroStrategy, against whom
Enterprise
[Revised 8/2/08; still working on cleaning up this consciousness stream.] Back in the old days, it seemed easy to create a category in software. Look at the database market, for example: * IBM invents the relational DBMS (RDBMS) category * Oracle, Ingres, and Informix enter in a largely undifferentiated way,
Frequent readers will know I'm a pretty tough grader, but I have to give Alfresco an A+ for the positioning and strategy around (if not the naming of) today's launch of Alfresco Labs Beta 3. They're drowning in coverage -- press this link to
