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11.18.2008
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11.17.2008 I'm here at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, where weighty topics including "the most exciting development environment ever" and "a battle for the soul of the Internet" are being debated. The development environment being discussed, of course, is the mashup... The battle is forming between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, on the one hand, and OpenAjax on the other. Read more from Doug Henschen >> Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend 11.17.2008
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11.17.2008 For the past few months, I've collected a lot of data points to the effect that high-performance analytics — i.e., beyond straightforward query — is becoming increasingly important. And I've written about some of these topics, including MapReduce, geospatial analytic capabilities and memory-centric analytics among a few others... Read more from Curt Monash >> Clarabridge Focuses on Customer Experience 11.14.2008
I spent a worthwhile day last week at Clarabridge's inaugural user conference. The company is a leading text analytics vendor, and the opportunity to catch up with staff and users and (it turned out) prospects and partners was too good to pass up. Clarabridge is different from many other text analytics vendors in its singular focus on customer-experience management (CEM). The approach seems to work. Read more from Seth Grimes >>
11.14.2008 Oracle founder Larry Ellison, speaking at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference, raised quite a few eyebrows when he derided "cloud computing" as "complete gibberish" in an extended on-stage rant... To me, cloud computing is about rethinking the role of infrastructure in a world of astonishingly cheap and abundant infrastructure. Read more from Kas Thomas >>
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Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
 With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.
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Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax. JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support. Appian Readies Upgrades Of BPM Suite The latest version of Appian Enterprise 5.7 introduces features that make the product easier to use, such as expanded support for custom data types and Web services. Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy. IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out. Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source The next release of Actuate's business intelligence software includes more support for its Eclipse Foundation project started four years ago. Sybase Offers Real-Time Loading Of Transaction Data The Real-Time Loading Solution provides continuous loading of transaction changes into the company's IQ analytics-optimized server to enable real-time reporting. Boomi Offers Online Integration Service To ISVs Called AtomSphere, the "platform-as-a-service" offering allows ISVs to productize and embed integration services within their applications.
SPOTLIGHT The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come
 The problems that made open source code impractical for many businesses are falling away. Add in the 'cheaper' factor, and this should get interesting.
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