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Clouds no longer pass by Windows.

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, data, news, tagged , , , on October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Amazon today announced that later this year, Windows Server woud be available on EC2. No details on cost and licensing etc. but this is major.  Up until now, that portion of the business world who are pure MS shops (a very large percentage especially amongst SMEs) were excluded from taking advantage of Amazon’s amazing (and [...]

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Amazon EC2: S, L and XL - now we’re sucking diesel..

Posted in BI, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, tagged , , on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »

As of today, Amazon EC2 now supports two new Instance Types..
… a “Large” and an “Extra Large” instance type to complement the original instance type and provide more flexibility for EC2 users. The new instance types provide more memory, CPU, and instance storage, and are based on 64bit technology. EC2 users can now [...]

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Proto - desktop BI tool.

Posted in ETL, Proto, RSSBus, VBA, news, xLite on September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I see that Proto have repositioned their excellent VBA scripted mash-up product as a “desktop business intelligence system”. This is to be welcomed as the first time I used it I described it as a “mash-up tool for adults” and although it has the ability to play hard ball with the other Web2.0 mash-up [...]

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Google Spreadsheets - ETL tool

Posted in BI, ETL, GoogleApps, RSSBus, Ruby, SQLite, Talend, VBA, Web2.0, excel, kettle, tagged on September 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Although I’m a total Excel fanboy, I most admit I rarely use it any longer for personal stuff such as home budgets, tax calculations, what-ifs, to-do lists etc.; I now tend to use Google Spreadsheets. Likewise, personal notes, drafts and useful bits of code are stored using Google Docs rather than MS Word. [...]

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Apatar - a few extracts short of a load

Posted in BI, ETL, Proto, RSSBus, SQLite, Talend, data, excel, kettle, tagged on July 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to try out the Apatar ETL/Mashup tool for sometime and today being yet another rainy day in this the worst Irish summer that I can remember (and Irish summers are not renowned for the lack of rainfall) I decided to give it a try out. Not impressed I’m afraid; comes up [...]

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I hope their intentions are honorable…..

Posted in Proto, RSSBus on April 14, 2007 | No Comments »

I’ve said before that these two would make an ideal couple, I see the courting flirting has begun …..
RSSBus
Proto

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Mashup Match Making

Posted in Proto, RSSBus, excel, tagged on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been watching and trialing RSSBus since its initial public beta last May but had of late began to wonder had /N Software lost interest in the project.  But there appears to be light at the end of this particular beta tunnel with the announcement of the integration of the RSSBus engine into News Gataor’s NewsGator [...]

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