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2010-02-01 08:48
I haven't seen the full text yet but did get hold of the MQ image from this Oracle blog that also contains some interesting observations and snippets from the full text. What you don't see however in this blog is the movement and reshuffling that took place between the 2009 and 2010 editions of the...
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2010-01-27 23:12
Introduction
There's a nice quote on the Greenplum site from Brian Dolan, Fox Interactive Media which says “Very impressed with the speed... 3 minutes to do a sum on 100 million rows of data”. That pretty much sums it up. I wouldn't consider that anything to be proud of; 3 minutes to do a...
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2010-01-09 19:52
2010 is well on its way and many of you posted their insights and predictions for the upcoming year. No need to add to those posts; the ones by Nenshad Bardoliwalla (with some excellent comments from Neil Raden) and James Kobelius pretty much sum it up, and are also linked to from many other...
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2009-11-15 09:00
On November 15, 2009 Jos van Dongen will be your host during a full-day Open Source BI seminar for Array in Nieuwegein (Netherlands). The seminar gives you a thorough overview of existing and emerging technologies and vendors. It will explain how to incorporate Open Source software into your...
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2009-10-05 12:54
The acquisition
Today Pentaho announced the acquisition of parts of the LucidEra BI solution (formerly called 'ClearView') to replace the current OLAP client JPivot. For the past couple of years JPivot has been the ugly duck in the Pentaho BI solution but although there are better/prettier open...
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2009-09-14 12:31
Reactions to the new Pentaho book I wrote together with Roland Bouman are all very positive. I especially like the extended reviews on Amazon, but the following Tweet by Mark Dathorne really blew me away:
Reading "Creating Pentaho Solutions" ... my last life changing book was "Spring in Action" ......
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2009-08-22 08:16
I haven't got my copy yet, but those in the US who pre-ordered 'Pentaho Solutions' got it yesterday. Here's the Pentaho team showing the fruits of our labor:
Also see Gretchen Moran's first impressions on her blog.
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2009-08-02 11:03
I've been assembling computers for over 10 years now, and even built PC based rack mounted servers for a company I was involved in. The advantages of building your own machines are of course the lower costs and the freedom to select and mix the best/cheapest/fastest components available (these...
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2009-07-26 12:52
No, this isn't about the Dutch government and their efforts to promote Open Source & Open Standards, but during the trip back home from our holiday destination the following analogy occurred to me. In the Netherlands, we have a very fragmented multi-party political system. This means...
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2009-06-24 18:09
The Pentaho Solutions book Roland and I have been working on since last year is near publication. Great cover, isn't it?
ps. here's a sneak preview of the reporting chapter
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