A reader sent me to this post about the “Palantir party wagon” which had been taken down before I could see it.  However, thanks to the magic of the Google cache, I found the text here , some of which I’ve embedded below. Palantir Party Wagon Might Be Taking A Break Big money is spent here, which help pay for elaborate parties and groovy soundtracks for demo videos

Link:
Palantir: The Next MicroStrategy?

Today Playboy is going freemium with shots of the HP marketing consultant at the center of the Mark Hurd situation, Jodie Fisher , who evidently posed for 16 pictures, some of which were featured in the September, 1980 issue feature called Girls of the Southwest Conference.  (Tidbit:  if you look at the cover, you can see that issue cost $2.75 in 1980 dollars.)  There are several stories in the media covering Playboy’s move.

Excerpt from:
If Playboy Were on MarkLogic, The Jodie Fisher Shots Would Have Been Up a Week Ago

This post is in response to this story in today’s Mercury News:  Actress’s Role At HP Called Puzzling . (That’s the print title, the online title is different, probably for SEO reasons.) While there are many things puzzling about the situation at HP, the role they describe for Jodie Fisher is not:  it’s called wingman .

See the original post:
Fisher Role at HP called “Puzzling” by the Mercury News; Not to Me

Just a quick post to highlight some interesting facts from Fenwick & West’s (F&W’s) quarterly Silicon Valley venture capital survey . Valuations are up.  Up-rounds beat down rounds 55% to 27%, with flat rounds making up the difference.  F&W’s venture capital barometer showed an average price increase of 30%.

Go here to read the rest:
Highlights from the Fenwick & West Venture Trends Report

Pioneering a new market and introducing an innovative technology in the process invariably results in customer confusion, usually driven by a fairly predictable “I’ve never seen one of those before” reaction: What is a relational database and why would I need one when IMS is doing just fine? What is a business intelligence tool anyway why would I need it in addition to ReportSmith?

View post:
Confusion Is The Enemy and Inconsistency is His Ally

To be fair to my colleagues, the product’s documentation and the massive online tutorials we have published explain well what XQJ is and how to use DataDirect XQuery. http://web.datadirect.com/resources/dis/xqj-tutorial/index.html True, DataDirect XQuery is a commercial product, an enterprise -class implementation and an embeddable component. but that doesn’t mean that it cannot be easily used for querying plain XML.

More here:
Cannot access DDXQDataSource for XQuery in java

With the recent (April 2010) SOA Suite 11g R1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0), several new capabilities have been added to the SOA Suite.

Read the original here:
Publish SOA Composite application as EJB to be invoked from Java applications using EJB Binding

Donderdag as. is de AMIS Query van Doug Burns over SQL Tuning, gebruikmakend van de Oracle Enterprise Manager (Tuning en Diagnostics pack). Misschien verwachten velen een hoog “DBA” gehalte, maar niets is minder waar… Deze presentatie bevat bijna geen enkele slides en is echt een aanrader om bij te wonen.

Read the rest here:
Laatste “Plug” – Cuddly Toys Not Included – Een AMIS Query met Doug Burns

In a recent post I described how we can use the EJB Binding in SOA Suite 11g PS2 to invoke a SOA Composite application through RMI as a remote EJB. This interaction can be fully based on Java interfaces – no WSDL or XML required

See the original post here:
Invoke SOA Composite application through RMI as remote EJB (using binding.adf)

‘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.

See more here:
Oracle Team Productivity Center