‘Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC) is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that enables software development teams to collaborate and work productively together when developing applications using JDeveloper.’ (OTN TPC page) TPC provides unified access to different ALM repositories from within JDeveloper and it allows to define relations between the so-called work-items in these (separate) repositories.

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Oracle Team Productivity Center

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See EMC’s press release on the deal here .  First, some takeaways from the press release and related coverage: All cash transaction, valuation undisclosed.  See below for some fun and math, trying to guestimate it from standard ratios. Greenplum had raised $61M in venture capital. EMC intends to create a new “data computing” product division and to have Greenplum CEO Bill Cook run it, reporting to Pat Gelsinger .

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EMC Acquires Data Warehouse Vendor Greenplum; Creates New “Data Computing” Product Division

The gnomes of ISO (err, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 WG5) have released the second draft of their Technical Report comparing ODF and OOXML (PDF). It is up to 126 pages now, and much more fleshed out than the first draft. One..

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ODF and OOXML Translation: Working Draft 2 of ISO technical report out

Add this class to your C# project: public class Directory { private string _path; private Directory( string path) { _path = path; } public static Directory ApplicationData { get { return new Directory ( Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment .SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)); } } public static Directory CommonApplicationData { get { return new Directory ( Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment .SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData)); } } public static Directory operator /( Directory root, string folder) { return new Directory ( Path .Combine(root._path, folder)); } public static implicit operator string ( Directory directory) { return directory._path; } } Now you can express directories naturally: string databaseFileName = Directory .ApplicationData / “MichaelLPerry” / “CorrespondenceIM” / “Correspondence.sdf” ; I don’t have a good place for code like this to live. What do you do with these kinds of utilities?

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Easy .NET directory helper

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How to remove the BLOGGER’s Navigation Bar

We are in the middle of one of our periodic analyst tours at MarkLogic , where we meet about 50 top software industry analysts focused in areas like enterprise search, enterprise content management, and database management systems.  The NoSQL movement was one of four key topics we are covering, and while I’d expected some lively discussions about it, most of the time we have found ourselves educating people about NoSQL. In this post, I’ll share the six key points we’re making about NoSQL on the tour. Our first point is that NoSQL systems come in many flavors and it’s not just about key/value stores.  These flavors include: Key/value stores (e.g., Hadoop) Document databases (e.g., MarkLogic, CouchDB) Graph databases (e.g., AllegroGraph) Distributed caching systems (e.g., Memcached) Our second point is that NoSQL is part of a broader trend in database systems :  specialization.  The jack-of-all-trades relational database (e.g., Oracle, DB2) works reasonably well for a broad range of applications — but it is a master of none.  For any specific application, you can design a specialized DBMS that will outperform Oracle by 10 to 1000 times.  Specialization represents, in aggregate, the biggest threat to the big-three DBMS oligopolists.  Examples of specialized DBMSs include: Streambase, Skyler:  real-time stream processing MarkLogic:  semi-structured data Vertica, Greenplum:  mid-range data warehousing Aster:  large-scale (aka “big data”) analytic data warehousing VoltDB:  high volume transaction processing MATLAB:  scientific data management Our third point is that NoSQL is largely orthogonal to specializatio n.  There are specialized NoSQL databases (e.g., MarkLogic) and there are specialized SQL databases (e.g., Aster, Volt).  The only case where I think there are zero examples is general-purpose NoSQL systems.  While I’m sure many of the NoSQL crowd would argue that their systems can do everything, is anyone *really* going to run general ledger or opportunity management on Hadoop?   I don’t think so

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Six Thoughts on The NoSQL Movement

Three news items caught my interest this week. all slightly related: Dr. Neelie Kroes has made a significant speech How to get more interoperability in Europe on practical steps on interoperability and standards.

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Europe to force all ‘significant market players’ to provide information necessary for interoperability?

Hey Everyone, As always, the development team here at eBridge has had their nose to the grindstone this week. Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the week

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New and Updated EDI Integration Connections for Sobeys, Best Buy, Fred Meyer Freightliner, and more.

Today, in what I consider a surprising move, French PLM and CAD vendor Dassault Systèmes announced the acquisition of French enterprise search vendor Exalead for €135M or, according to my calculator, $161M.  Here is my quick take on the deal: While I don’t have precise revenue figures, my guess is that Exalead was aiming at around $25M in 2010 revenues, putting the price/sales multiple at 6.4x current-year sales, which strikes me as pretty good given what I’m guessing is around a 25% growth rate.  ( This source says $21M in software revenue, though the year is unclear and it’s not clear if software means software-license or software-related.  This source , which I view as quite reliable, says $22.7M in total revenue in 2009 and implies around 25% growth.  Wikipedia says €15.5M in 2008 revenues, which equals exactly $22.7M at the average exchange rate.  This French site says €12.5M in 2008 revenues.  The Qualis press release — presumably an excellent source — says €14M ($19.5M) in 2009 revenues.  Such is the nature of detective work.) I am surprised that Dassault would be interested in search-based applications, Exalead’s latest focus.  While PLM vendors have always had an interest in content delivery and life-cycle documentation (e.g., a repair person entering feedback on documentation that directly feeds into future product requirements) , I’d think they want to buy a more enterprise techpubs / DITA vendor than a search vendor to do so as in the PTC / Arbortext deal of 2005.  Nevertheless, Dassault President and CEO Bernard Charlès said that with Exalead they could build “a new class of search-based applications for collaborative communities.”  There is more information, including a fairly cryptic video which purports to explain the deal, on a Dassault micro-site devoted to the Exalead acquisition , which ends with the phrase:  search-based applications for lifelike experience.  Your guess as to what that means is as good as mine. I think those who position Exalead as “ France’s Google ” are misguided.  Exalead was very clearly an enterprise software company that used its Internet search site as a demo of its capabilities, much as DEC long ago used AltaVista as a demo of the Alpha chip or Vivisimo (until the recent sale to Yippy) used Clusty as a demo of its clustering technology, or for that matter, as MarkLogic uses MarkMail as a demo of our XML server .  In there ever was a European attempt at Google, it was Quaero , which I always viewed as the Airbus of search

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Quick Take on the Dassault Systèmes Acquisition of Exalead