BI
According to this story in today's New York Times, Oracle will acquire Hyperion for $3.3B, or $52 per share, a 21% premium over yesterday's closing price. The concept isn't surprising; that it finally happened is. For years, speculation has circled the major BI
Much as I used a post and a blogroll link to highlight the FAQ for this blog, with this post, I'll create a "best of" list to highlight posts that have stood out from the others. * Ut Oh, It's Magic * Don't Trust
Here's a link to a post done by Matt Turner on his Discovering XQuery blog that discusses Publishing 2.0 and content logic. In this post Matt discusses what I call the "thick middle tier" problem with most search-engine-based content applications. Here's
VC
Forbes has published its Midas List, an annual ranking of top venture capitalists. Topping the list this year is Mike Moritz of (Mark Logic investor) Sequoia Capital. Moritz beat out John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins for the top slot. By virtue of running Mark Logic, I've had the
On the plane to France last summer, I channel-surfed into a hilarious movie, entitled Jean-Philippe. In the film, Fabrice Luchini portrays Johnny Hallyday's biggest fan who, after receiving a knockout blow in a drunken fight, awakes to find himself in an alternate universe where Johnny Hallyday
While it's been around for some time, I only recently stumbled up on StumpleUpon, a fun web service that I recommend trying because it restores serendipity to the web. I remember worrying during the web boom of the late 1990s -- particularly during the portals, PointCast, and subscribe/alert
Here's a colorful story I stumbled into on Diplomatic Traffic bashing France's Jacques Chirac for the failure of Quaero, which I've written about previously and characterized as the Airbus of Search. Germany's recent bail-out from the Quaero project, detailed in an
One of our field consultants, Matt Turner, has started a blog called Discovering XQuery. Since Matt is often in demand and spends lots of time working on customer engagements, he hasn't found the time to do many posts, but the ones he has done are quite good. So
I had dinner a few weeks back in Boston with the folks from Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). The restaurant, Mare, had the absolutely unique positioning of "organic, coastal Italian." (Try the spaghettoni and the bread pudding.) The wine list was super but they lacked cocktails, presumably a
I was on a sales call in the UK recently, where we had a telling interchange with a prospective customer (PC). It went something like this. PC: "So tell me what problems other publishers are solving with MarkLogic?" ML: We described how our customers repurpose content, build custom
Here's a cute little site I found a while back on John Battelle's Searchblog. It's called givemebackmygoogle.com and its slogan is "Google results without all the annoying affiliate links." It uses Google to achieve its results and simple transforms your search
I’m going to start applying a test to new prospective customers outside Mark Logic’s core publishing and government markets. In the middle of a conversation with a senior business person I’ll stop and say something like: "Well, you know that many leading publishers trust their content
