As frequent readers know, one of my memes is the rise of special-purpose databases, whether they be data warehouse appliances like Netezza, stream databases like Streambase, or OLAP (aka multi-dimensional) databases like Essbase, recently purchased by Oracle through the Hyperion Acquisition. I believe that MarkLogic is one of
This just hit the wires this morning at 8:00 AM Eastern: Google to buy Postini for $625M in cash. Here's the official press release. Google will add Postini's on-demand "security" (nee anti-spam) offering to its stable of Google Apps. Judging by
In the classic book, The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen concludes that a key reason leading companies fail is because they spend too much energy working on sustaining innovations that continuously improve their products for their existing customers. Seemingly paradoxically, he points out that these sustaining innovations can involve
Just a quick post to highlight a popular on-demand webinar that we've been running, entitled "Web Publishing 2.0: Ten Trends Publishers Need to Know." The webinar features "rock star" Jason Hunter, principal technologist at Mark Logic, discussing several important patterns in how
Check out this blog post on ZDnet, entitled "Enterprise Search: Why it's a Crisis and Googzilla will Strike," which is a series of takeaways from Stephen Arnold's recent presentation at Enterprise Search Summit in New York. The parts I agree with are: * It'
I could write a long post on this topic, and perhaps will one day, but since time is of the essence in the blogosphere, I thought I'd do my "quick take" on my former employer's acquisition of Inxight, press release here. * I'd
Tim O'Reilly gave a fascinating, information-loaded, 105-slide keynote address this morning at the 2007 Mark Logic User Conference. Tidbits include: * O'Reilly's mission is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators: watch the alpha geeks. * Web 2.0, which could
This post’s title is one of my favorite sayings because it perfectly captures our conflicting attitudes toward change. Intellectually, people know that change is necessary for advancement, but emotionally, most of us still don’t like it. Happily, for companies like Mark Logic, there are always some brave souls
I think that most people now correctly perceive our product, MarkLogic Server, as an XML content server, a special-purpose DBMS designed specifically for handling XML marked-up content. That’s the good news. The better news is that many of these same people are figuring out what that means
I've always been a fan of Gartner's hype cycle, and have always loved Gartner's names for the milestones along the way (e.g., the peak of inflated expectations, the trough of disillusionment). So it was fun to discover that Valleywag, the People Magazine of
Just a quick post to introduce readers to Scribd, a YouTube for documents. Let's explore that analogy. Before YouTube, videos were hard to share because they were too big to email and because there were various yucky formatting issues to resolve. YouTube solved this practical problem by letting
Things are sure crazy in enterprise search. * First, Verity forgets to invest in product innovation for several years, leaving themselves open to a general market-share assault and subsequent acquisition by Autonomy -- a company less than one-half Verity's size at the time they acquired them. That'
