This video will show how to remove the navigation bar in the blogger’s blogspot. It is possible to remove the navigation bar (some call it as Navigation strip) …

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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

Over the last few years I have linked to various national government policies on Open Source software and procurement policies. But I see I omitted us in Australia. So here is what I can find, from 2005: Guide to Open…

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Australian Government procurement policy on Open Standard document formats

XML in Legislature/Parliament Environments (Sean McGrath) — quite detailed background on the use of XML in legislation drafting systems, and the problems caused by convention in that world–page/line number citations, in particular. (Quick gloat: NZ’s legislature management system is kick-ass, and soon we’ll switch from print authoritative to digital authoritative) Large-Scale Social Media Analysis with Hadoop — In this…

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Four short links: 1 June 2010

Good Afternoon, Well it’s safe to say that summer has arrived! Despite the week of record-high temperatures, the developers here at eBridge still pumped out an impressive list of updates. Below are the new and updated integration connections

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New and Updated EDI and eCommerce Integration Connections for ChannelAdvisor, Holt Renfrew, Sears and more.

WIN AN Apple iPad @ IRCE 2010! That’s right – we have a 16GB iPad (Wi-Fi only) that we want to give to you. All you have to do is come by booth #140 at the 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition in Chicago to cast your ballot! The random draw will take place once we

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We’re Giving Away an Apple iPad at IRCE 2010!

We recently received notice that effective this month, all vendors trading with Target.com will be required to implement an EDI solution. The details of the change including concerns for specific EDI document numbers can be found below: As we move away from the VCommerce (Channel Intelligence) solution, we require that all vendors implement an EDI

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Important EDI Changes for Target