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

I am sure most of you would have seen tons of definitions, tutorials and examples of MVVM pattern and its context with respect to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight (a stripped down WPF for the internet browser environment). However…( read more )

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Model-View-ViewModel Pattern – 101

One of the conclusions of our report Smart Content in the Enterprise (forthcoming next week) is how a little bit of enrichment goes a long way. It’s important to build on your XML infrastructure, enrich your content a little bit (to the extent that your business environment is able to support), and expect to iterate over time.

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Smart Content and the Pull of Search Engine Optimization

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

Well, I did not expect so much debate about my dumb test with count()… Indeed it is not fair to judge a product based only on a such simple tests, but that can gives hints about the degree of sophistication or naivety of its implementation and the amount of effort put into optimizing it

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ANSWERS to "What’s wrong with XQuery" question

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

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

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Palantir: The Next MicroStrategy?