Thanks to a Google Alert I stumbled into this interesting post entitled The Content Imperative: Unlearning the Relational Model in another CEO blog, that of Joel Amoussou of Montreal-based Efasoft. Says Joel: relational data * Content is created to be human readable * Content can be rendered in multiple presentation formats
Silicon Valley
I found an interesting article in Forbes the other day entitled The Silicon Lining / Why the Bust is Good for Silicon Valley and I thought I'd discuss it a bit here. Let's start with this excerpt with some interesting IPO-related stats: ... Since 2002, there have
I've blogged once before about email-sniffing Tacit Software and its founder (and my old boss) David Gilmour. So I was a bit saddened to read this story on VentureBeat entitled Oracle Scoops Up Tacit's Intellectual Property. Now, happily, I lack personal experience in such matters,
I heard this soundbite today (pronounced "web two dot over") as Silicon Valley's response to the crisis in the financial markets, declining consumer spending, and the imminent recession. In many ways, I think it's true. * Many of the previously-unconstrained-by-revenue web 2.
Nova Spivack, founder and (I think) CEO of Radar Networks / Twine (see prior post here), entrepreneur, blogger, and grandson of management legend Peter Drucker, is often described as head salesperson for the semantic web / web 3.0. Here is the video of Nova giving a presentation on the semantic web
Thanks to Alex Moissis for passing along a link to the following presentation in a comment on my previous post (Nobody Knows) on the current financial crisis. I thought the presentation was so good, so insightful, and so statistics-packed, that I'd share it here. And lest I
I'm seeing increasing blogosphere references to Intrade prediction markets, so I thought I'd cruise over to intrade.com and have look. I first heard of the idea of using prediction markets in business over a decade ago from amateur economist and Business Objects co-worker Timo
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
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
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:
