A former colleague hit an old nerve the other day, sending me the following message about budgets and budgeting. Dear Dave, A question for you — I just saw a typical idiotic internal email about budgets yesterday, and to my recollection [at our last company], you tried to make the system less dysfunctional, but didn’t really make much headway, and almost earned yourself some finance team enemies [in the process]. Now that you’re CEO, do you still have those feelings about budgets, or have you now seen the other side of the coin?

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The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process

Today we announced a great new feature for Phurnace Deliver™ – the Configuration Viewer. With this feature, Phurnace is providing not just system administrators but also business managers an easily viewable, graphical representation of the applications, components, and resources running on web application servers including how they all interrelate. Here are a few ways to check it out: View the Demo Have a look at the Screenshots Read the Press Release

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New Product Feature – Configuration Viewer

We’ve recently seen some interesting developments with Mark Logic in the financial services sector, particularly in the area of derivatives . The activity started with our partnership with docGenix , a spin-off from legal powerhouse Allen & Overy , who has built a MarkLogic -based application for managing derivatives contracts. I’ve blogged about docGenix previously in this post entitled MarkLogic Unleashed on Contracts .

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FpML Derivatives Trading Repositories with MarkLogic Server

Oracle Fusion Applications are on the move. They were demonstrated at Oracle Open World 2009, they are current being tested with dozens if not hundreds of organizations and they have been promised for general availability later in 2010. Screenshots of selected modules are available on the internet, for example at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oracleopenworld09/sets/72157622462805751/

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ADF 11g: contextInfo to implement a common Fusion Applications pattern

Following on the heels of Luc's excellent post on the new ADF 11g carousel component – http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6514/jdeveloper-11112-carousel-component-as-master-and-detail – is another article that shows off this visually attractive component, using it in a slightly different way. Even though the most logical application of the ADF 11gR1 PS1 carousel component is to use for displaying images, the component

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ADF 11g: Carousel is not just for images – on carousels with panelbox, tabs, panelform and input components

I’m pleased to report that Mark Logic was highlighted in a San Jose Mercury News story published yesterday about the resurgence of VC-backed startups one year after the famous Sequoia Rest in Peace Good Times meeting. The story was published as part of the Mercury New’s quarterly venture capital survey . The story begins: When Dave Kellogg arrived at Sequoia Capital on that day in early October 2008, “the last chair in the room was in the front row,” he recalled.

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Mark Logic Highlighted in San Jose Mercury News Story on Venture Capital

Here is a summary of the recent Orbeon Forms developments: 1. Form Builder and Form Runner We keep polishing Form Runner and Form Builder. In addition to the usual bug-fixes: Form attachments are attached to emails, and Form Runner is able to include values from form controls in email subjects

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The state of Orbeon Forms, Part 2

We’re thrilled with the registration for the Mark Logic Government Summit which is being held tomorrow — Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 — at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. But if you haven’t registered and you want to go, it’s not too late . If you’re still on the fence about registering and/or if you want to whet your appetite for what’s in store, please find embedded below a copy of the full program guide / agenda.

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Mark Logic Government Summit Program Guide. Last Chance to Register!

On our blog, we have been discussing the new hierarchical query functionality in Oracle Database 11g Release 2, using Recursive Suquery Factoring. Instead of using CONNECT BY and its close associates such as START WITH, PRIOR, LEVEL and more exotic comrades like SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH, CONNECT_BY_ROOT and NOCYCLE this release gave us a new, less proprietary and

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Oracle 11gR2 – alternative for CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF function for Recursive Subquery Factoring (dedicated to Anton)

I’m very happy to report that IDC has named Mark Logic “an innovation information access company under $100M to watch.” IDC’s press release is here and a copy of the ($3500 a la carte paid) report is here . Excerpt: New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive access to all relevant information. Contributing to this innovation is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to have an impact on the IT marketplace.

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IDC Names Mark Logic Innovative Information Access Company to Watch