Any type of business or individual who works with XML software will already know that this is a data-driven application which requires certain XML productivity tools. Productivity tools for XML are needed for enabling the entire …
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Over the past few weeks, since publishing Smart Content in the Enterprise , I’ve had several fascinating lunchtime conversations with colleagues concerned about content technologies. Our exchanges wind up with a familiar refrain that goes something like this. “Geoffrey, you have great insights about smart content but what am I supposed to do with all this information?” Ah, it’s the damning with faint praise gambit that often signals an analysis paralysis conundrum for decision-making
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What’s Next with Smart Content?
I had lunch last week with a senior executive at a major software vendor. I asked him how one of my former (non-MarkLogic) colleagues was doing. His reply: “Not so well. Expectations were set very high because of his past experience and in the end he didn’t hire strong direct reports and build a strong organization. Worse yet, when he was challenged on the quality of those people, instead of accepting that there may have been problems, he defended them. And defending weak people is the beginning of the death cycle .” The last sentence caught my attention because it’s a key decision that every manager must make. When your management comes to you and says “your people are weak,” I think you are faced with two choices. Say “no they are not” and defend them. Say “perhaps they are” and upgrade them
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Defending Weak People
Qizx is an embeddable, high-speed, native XML indexing and query engine written in Java (TM), with the querying and processing capabilities of a fully fledged XML Query implementation. ——————————————— What is new in version 4.1: * Qizx Server can now be installed in a few clicks thanks to a control tool that supports https, user accounts, handling of Windows services and firewall.
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[ANN] Qizx 4.1 released
One of my favorite people to speak with in the search space is Stephen Arnold . He’s zany. He’s curmudgeonly. And he’s been doing search, well, forever so there’s not much that he doesn’t know. He’s a prolific blogger on his Beyond Search blog. If you ever get the chance to hear him give a speech, you should take it. He’s a delightful speaker as well. In June of 2008, I did an interview with Stephen for his excellent Search Wizards Speak series. Last week, I sat with down Stephen and did another interview that he’s released as a podcast, here . It’s 25 minutes long and we talk about MarkLogic, unstructured information, XML as a data model as opposed to an ultimate purpose, our target markets, and NoSQL. At the end, Stephen — who suddenly claims to be a distant relative — even asks about MarkLogic’s prospects for an IPO.
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Chatting with Stephen Arnold (podcast)
(Revised 10/12/10) In a surprising move, HP announced that it has appointed former SAP executive Léo Apotheker as CEO. In addition, HP has appointed former Oracle executive and Kleiner Perkins partner Ray Lane to its board of directors and named him to the position of non-executive chairman.
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HP Names Former SAP Executive Léo Apotheker as CEO
Just a quick post to highlight our upcoming Digital Publishing Summit on October 28th, 2010 at the lovely Plaza Hotel in New York City. Register here if you’re planning on attending. If you’ve not yet decided to come, here are some reasons that you might: Hear the wonderful speaker, Chris Andersen , editor in chief of Wired , author of The Long Tail and Free , and more recently author of the Wired cover story The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet . Hear from the brilliant, avuncular David Worlock as he discusses his latest thoughts of the ongoing transition of the media and publishing industry
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Attend the MarkLogic Digital Publishing Summit 10/28/10 at the Plaza Hotel in NYC
In our recently completed research on Smart Content in the Enterprise we explored how organizations are taking advantage of benefits from XML throughout the enterprise and not just in the documentation department. Our findings include several key issues that leading edge XML implementers are addressing including new delivery requirements, new ways of creating and managing content, and the use of standards to create rich, interoperable content
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Repurposing Content vs. Creating Multipurpose Content
Just when you thought the HP debacle couldn’t get any more interesting , then Oracle hires Hurd as co-president (seemingly pushing out Charles Phillips in the process), and now HP is suing Mark Hurd , seeking an injunction to prevent him from working at Oracle. Questions now abound: Can HP stop Hurd from working at Oracle? If they do, will Oracle try to get Charles Phillips back (as Henry Blodget tweeted earlier)? This makes daytime soaps look boring by comparison
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HP Sues Hurd For Accepting Oracle Co-President Position
I found this post by Stanford evidence-based management professor Robert Sutton and tweeted about it earlier today. But since it’s so good, I decided to do a post about it along with some commentary. First, here are the twelve things: I have a flawed and incomplete understanding of what it feels like to work for me. My success — and that of my people — depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods. Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much.
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Twelve Things Good Bosses Believe
