Just a quick post to highlight and share this great case study by Mitch Kramer of the Patricia Seybold Group on Blue Guru, JetBlue’s content management and publishing system. Excerpt to tempt you into reading the 26-page document: XML is BlueGuru’s enabling technology, and MarkLogic Server is its most critical architectural element. XML addresses JetBlue’s requirements for structured documents—multiple types, multiple components within each type, hierarchical relationships between components, and component sharing across documents.

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BlueGuru: JetBlue’s MarkLogic-Based Publishing and Content Management System

  At http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html you wll find all Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g software. This includes: JDeveloper 11.1.1.1.0 with the 11gR1 release of ADF WebLogic 11g (10.3.1) SOA Suite 11g WebCenter 11g Complex Event Processing  11g Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer 11g – running on WebLogic Server 11g  To download all of it, you need substantial bandwidt h and diskspace. However, it is well worth it! Note: BPM

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g available for download

Oracle posted a press release about their involvement and commitment for UBMatrix XBRL technologies last Wednesday saying (among others): “To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and automatic exchange of financial statements in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), Oracle will embed UBmatrix, Inc.’s leading XBRL technology into Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System, Oracle announced today.” “Oracle and UBmatrix are also working together to provide enterprise class storage and management for XBRL-based information in Oracle® Database 11g. Using Oracle Database’s XML DB feature, organizations can easily and quickly store, access and query their XBRL data.” A lot of you might ask themselves: “Who are or what is UBMatrix ???” and how does it all fit in… …more

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Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.

I was reading this interesting post, Emerging Enterprise Content Management Trends , on the Gilbane Group blog this morning when I stumbled into this rather amazing soundbite. Jeff Fried, VP Product Management for Microsoft’s FAST search engine actually proclaimed that “keyword search is dead!” Now, last I checked, Fast was doing around $50M — oh sorry, I mean post-correction of accounting irregularities , $35M a quarter in enterprise search revenue and that Microsoft paid $1B for the company in order to do a “best defense is a good offense” strategy vs.

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Things Not To Do: Declare Your Category Dead

I’m pleased to report that Mark Logic has announced the closing of a $12.5M round of financing from Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital . While most VCs are surely doing some portfolio triage in response to the current economic environment, and while that means that duo-syllabic, business-model-free, web 2.0, social-something start-ups will not have easy access to funding, the flip side of the “too sick to save” part of triage is that some set of companies — presumably the promising ones — will indeed have access to capital on favorable terms. People seem to forget that triage means “to divide in three groups” and that while things may indeed be grim for the group III patients, that things can be pretty good for the group I ones.

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Mark Logic Lands $12.5M in Capital to Sustain High Rate of Growth

But it does go back to a point I have made several times on this blog over the last few years: the more that our laws require the use of open standards, the more that we will need to make sure that the kind of “openness” involved or created by those standards actually allow grass-roots market-enhancing (which may in some cases be a euphemism for ‘disruptive’) implementation. So I am favouring the term Open Technologies rather than Open Standards: meaning technologies and their enabling standards which don’t exclude implementation for reason of size and complexity, just as much as for reasons of openness or language or timezone or IP or corporate affiliation or technological tradition. In fact, I would go as far as proposing the following rule of thumb: no open standard should make a technology that would take an experienced and expert developer more than one month (full-time) to develop.

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How big should an open standard be? A real issue for Open Standards and FOSS

Whew, it has been a while since I wrote my last blog.  New initiatives for the new year have been keeping me fully consumed.  However, one of these new initiatives has reached a point where it was time to get it written up on my blog. The cost of Medicaid and Medicare has been written about often as government budgets are re-evaluated and the new administration takes root.  With econonmic times being what they are the number of beneficiaries are increasing in an already overburdened system of service to US state and local communities.

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Applying SOA to improve US Medicaid and Medicare

I’m happy to announce the 10.1.3.4.1 release of BI Publisher. This release rolls up bug fixes and enhancements since 10.1.3.4.0 to include the following: Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 Extended Support for Single Sign-On Providers Automatic Refresh of LDAP Cache Support for Siebel CRM Security Support for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for Burst Reports Data Model Enhancements Web Service Data Set Type Enhancement: Specify Path to Data in SOAP Response SQL Query Data Set New Property: Use Default Schema Only Support for JNDI for Scheduler Connections Support for Expressions to Calculate Date Parameters RTF Template Enhancements Get List of BI Publisher Configuration Settings Enable Debug Mode for an RTF Template Number to Word Conversion in Report Output Remove Logos and Links from the BI Publisher Header Disable Access to Guest Page Updates to the BI Publisher Web Services For more details on this release please see: BI Publisher New Features Guide Release Notes Certification Information Note: something is wrong with the doc pages at the time of posting.

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BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 Enhancements

Catching up on links to blog posts I’ve found interesting this month … I was on vacation the first week of April, and missed out on the announcement of the release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April CTP.  Zeyad Rajabi has details of the SDK version 2 over on Brian Jones’s blog, including a great example of the validation technology that is being built into the SDK.  Zeyad also has a new post this week on how to remove comments from Excel and PowerPoint files . Stephen Peront , who will be in London at the DII workshop on May 18, has posted an example of how to use the new External File Converter API in Office 2007 SP2 .  This API gives developers the ability to add their own custom formats to Office’s list of supported formats – the list that appears in the dropdowns on the File/Open and Save/As dialogs.

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Miscellaneous Links, 04/22/2009

It is a last minute announcement but consider making it to the first OW2 Annual Conference in Paris over the next two days: Open Source for the Computing Infrastructure MAKE A DATE TO ATTEND THE FIRST OW2 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Two days at no cost to you to discover the enterprise software that will set you free and boost your efficiency: come and take part in the first OW2 Annual Conference, April 1-2, in Paris, held during the Solutions Linux trade show. Optimize your time: attending the first OW2 Annual Conference will also offer you the opportunity to visit the Solution Linux trade show, discover the latest developments in the OW2’s leading projects and get to talk with the developers themselves

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OW2 Annual Conference, April 1-2, 2009.