… and that’s good. That’s how I like my databases, boring, reliable, consistent, easy to use.
SimpleDB on the other hand is not boring, it’s an exciting new shiny thing that opens up a myriad of new possibilities; but first, I and the rest of the developer community, need to tool up and cast aside [...]
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Postgres Plus Cloud Edition is boring …
Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, EC2, ETL, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, olap, tagged Elastra, EnterpriseDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Java - at the eye of a perfect storm
Posted in ETL, Java, Palo, cloud, tagged Dojo, Hibernate, J2EE, Jetty, Oracle APEX, Palo ETL-Server, Spring, Tomcat, WaveMaker on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The “perfect storm” of ubiquitous broadband, powerful and cheap laptops, virtual machines, cloud-based services/infrastructure and open-source software is changing the nature of IT in a way that’s reminiscent of the revolution started by the IBM PC. Although a lot of emphasis has been put on the influence of consumer-focused services on [...]
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