Organizers of the Balisage Markup Conference 2010 have published a complete program listing, as well as details about the Pre-conference Symposium: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/LHProgram.html Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

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[ANN] XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term
Preservation of XML and Balisage 2010 Details

I am currently reworking Chapter 12 for the SOA Suite 11g Handbook. This chapter describes various types of interaction SOA Composite Applications can have with Java applications and components. Since the initial creation of this chapter – some 6 months ago – we have had the Patch Set 2 release of the SOA Suite.

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Calling an EJB from a SOA Composite Application using the EJB Binding based on Java Interface

Op Donderdag 17 juni, vanaf 18:00 uur, zal Oracle Database Expert en Oracle ACE Director Doug Burns(Schotland), een kennisavond vullen met live demo’s op basis van de Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostic en Tuning Pack. Deze bijzondere avond, geheel zonder slides, met de naam “How I Learned to Love Pictures – Oracle 10g/11g Performance Analysis Using

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Van maandag 7 tot en met vrijdag 11 juni verzorgen Luc Bors en Lucas Jellema een 5-daagse ADF 11g training – in het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. Deze training is bedoeld voor ontwikkelaars die met ADF 11g aan de slag zijn of willen gaan en behandelt alle onderdelen van het framework: ADF Business Component,

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Aangeboden: ADF 11g Training – 7-11 juni (Nieuwegein)

One of the things that irritates me about Silicon Valley culture is its blatant ageism.  I dislike it for several reasons: Let’s start with the easy one:  it’s illegal .  As an employer you should be looking for someone qualified to do the job, not someone of a specific age.  While certain job requirements may end up setting a de facto lower bound on age (e.g., it’s hard to have a top MBA and 5 years of second-line management experience before you’re 30), age is not something you should talk about in the recruiting or management process.  People who would never say “let’s go find a Baptist to do this job” or “let’s go find a woman” will say things like “let’s go find a 32-year-old,” seemingly unaware it’s the exact same kind of discrimination. The media, probably for the simple reason that it sells more newspapers, drives a distorted perception of age and entrepreneurship.  They love the oneupsmanship of “you found a 17-year-old entrepreneur , well we found a 13-year-old one ” (who, by the way, is also a social media consultant).  They love to write stories like How This Kid Made $60M in 18 Months , despite the fact they aren’t true .  They continue to both directly and indirectly promote the age-entrepreneurship myth despite the fact that the average of technology company founders is 39. In addition to over-promoting the whiz kids, the media almost never does any follow-up, telling us what became of the wunderkinds ten or twenty years later.  That’s why I was surprised to see this story in today’s New York Times, For A Mogul Money and Magic Have Limits , which details the dog’s breakfast whiz kid Halsey Minor has made of things since making a fortune off CNet during the Web 1.0 era.  Find the lessons in this quote:  “he thought he was a billionaire, spending far more than he had … but he really was a multi-millionaire always thinking I’m going to make the big score.” The asymmetric media coverage gives people a distorted sense of reality:  (1) that they must start a company before they’re 30 or they never will, (2) that after 30 they are washed up, (3) that the odds of succeeding in a venture are way higher than they are, (4) that skills are more the determinants of success than luck, and (5) that youth/energy are more important than experience.

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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 4.0: === * Qizx Server is a ready to use server module allowing remote clients to execute queries and retrieve results through simple HTTP REST-style protocols: – API service provides the main capabilities of the Qizx engine. Clients send their own queries.

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[ANN] Qizx 4.0 released

Today, in what I consider a surprising move, French PLM and CAD vendor Dassault Systèmes announced the acquisition of French enterprise search vendor Exalead for €135M or, according to my calculator, $161M.  Here is my quick take on the deal: While I don’t have precise revenue figures, my guess is that Exalead was aiming at around $25M in 2010 revenues, putting the price/sales multiple at 6.4x current-year sales, which strikes me as pretty good given what I’m guessing is around a 25% growth rate.  ( This source says $21M in software revenue, though the year is unclear and it’s not clear if software means software-license or software-related.  This source , which I view as quite reliable, says $22.7M in total revenue in 2009 and implies around 25% growth.  Wikipedia says €15.5M in 2008 revenues, which equals exactly $22.7M at the average exchange rate.  This French site says €12.5M in 2008 revenues.  The Qualis press release — presumably an excellent source — says €14M ($19.5M) in 2009 revenues.  Such is the nature of detective work.) I am surprised that Dassault would be interested in search-based applications, Exalead’s latest focus.  While PLM vendors have always had an interest in content delivery and life-cycle documentation (e.g., a repair person entering feedback on documentation that directly feeds into future product requirements) , I’d think they want to buy a more enterprise techpubs / DITA vendor than a search vendor to do so as in the PTC / Arbortext deal of 2005.  Nevertheless, Dassault President and CEO Bernard Charlès said that with Exalead they could build “a new class of search-based applications for collaborative communities.”  There is more information, including a fairly cryptic video which purports to explain the deal, on a Dassault micro-site devoted to the Exalead acquisition , which ends with the phrase:  search-based applications for lifelike experience.  Your guess as to what that means is as good as mine. I think those who position Exalead as “ France’s Google ” are misguided.  Exalead was very clearly an enterprise software company that used its Internet search site as a demo of its capabilities, much as DEC long ago used AltaVista as a demo of the Alpha chip or Vivisimo (until the recent sale to Yippy) used Clusty as a demo of its clustering technology, or for that matter, as MarkLogic uses MarkMail as a demo of our XML server .  In there ever was a European attempt at Google, it was Quaero , which I always viewed as the Airbus of search

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MarkLogic and its customer and partner the Warrior Gateway were profiled yesterday on this NBC news story (video below and brief write-up here ). We’re proud to work with the team on Warrior Gateway to help build a site that I view as Kayak plus Yelp all rolled into one, aimed at the specific needs of veterans and their families.  Here are some statistics that might surprise you: There are 25,000,000 veterans living in the USA today This number expands by approximately 280,000 each year The average age of a transitioning soldier is 25 years old 38,000 veterans have been wounded in OIF and OEF As many as 1 in 4 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental disorders As many as 1 in 5 have been diagnosed with symptoms of brain injury Suicide rates among veterans are 4x the national average, among male veterans aged 20-24 One in two homeless are Iraq or Afghanistan veterans For more information on the Warrior Gateway, visit the about page here , the site here , their blog here , or the page about the project from its sponsoring organization,  Business Executives for National Security , here . I’ve embedded the video of the news segment below.

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MarkLogic and the Warrior Gateway Profiled on NBC News

I am a huge fan of AutoPager add-on of Firefox. It saves a lot of time when browsing paginated websites (such as search engines, online forums, etc.) by automatically pre-loading the next page so that you never have to click Next to view the next page…( read more )

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AutoPager for Firefox & Chrome

The XML documents used in that paper were generated with the data generator from the XMark benchmark. See http://www.xml-benchmark.org/generator.html Regards, Bas de Bakker —–Original Message—– From: http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] On Behalf Of Florent Georges Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:16 To: Ken North; Martin Probst Cc: http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk Subject: Re: Re: XQuery and Big Data Martin Probst wrote: Hi, > > That’s a useful document because it shows that even at > > 3,000,000 documents / 3 TB, the xDB load rate does not > > decrease. > Indeed.

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