Updated: 2011-08-31 16:44:57
PodCamp Boston 6 is being held on September 24-25, 2011 at the Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cost is $30.00 For those who need a reminder of what PodCamp is all about: “Podcamp is an unconference where newbies and advanced content makers alike come to learn more about and share their knowledge of podcasting, blogging, [...]
Updated: 2011-08-31 16:44:57
The August 30 Library Journal has a very good roundup of the damage suffered by libraries on the East Coast by Hurricane Irene. It appears upper New York State and New Jersey suffered the most damage from flooding. One Vermont library lost 60 percent of its collection: “The Vermont state librarian is guardedly optimistic that [...]
Updated: 2011-08-27 05:11:46
I made a few remarks about Sybase IQ 15.3 when it became generally available in July. Now that I’ve had a current briefing, I’ll make a few more. The key enhancement in Sybase IQ 15.3 is distributed query — what others might call parallel query — aka PlexQ. A Sybase IQ query can now be [...]
Updated: 2011-08-19 03:09:31
HP has announced that: HP is buying Autonomy. HP is pulling back from WebOS. HP may spin off its PC business altogether. On a high level, this means: HP is doubling down on enterprise IT. HP is taking a more software-centric approach to the enterprise IT business. HP is backing away from the consumer electronics [...]
Updated: 2011-08-14 05:02:42
I decided I needed some Couchbase drilldown, on business and technology alike, so I had solid chats with both CEO Bob Wiederhold and Chief Architect Dustin Sallings. Pretty much everything I wrote at the time Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase (the company) still holds up. But I have more detail now. Context for [...]
