Jonathan Bruce
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Arrives for Connect
Thought frequent readers of the blog would enjoy our recent press release, supporting the announcement of Microsoft's new SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
Only Progress Software enabled companies using Java, Linux and Unix-based applications to connect to new data ware house offering...
A Little Prognostication on Gartner’s 2011 Predictions
Every year without fail Gartner and other analyst firms issue their 2011 predictions on hot trends in technology. The 2011 Top Strategic Technologies release from Gartner piqued my interest enough to do a bit of prognosticating myself. [A...
Dell & Boomi – All Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Reading the news about Dell’s acquisition of Boomi on Tuesday, I’ve come to this conclusion: history is repeating itself. Even more consolidation in this space is likely to occur. Integration...
Oracle / IBM Pact: Does it really matter?
In a post on this blog earlier this week, my esteemed colleague Jesse Davis weighed in with his thoughts on the Java Pact singed by Oracle and IBM. Jesse talked about how his concerns about the fragmentation of the Java language were put to rest with what he described as a pact that had some meat...
Do you have “Sanford & Son” Architecture?
Over the years, companies can build up some pretty junky architecture, cobbled together from a combination of existing bulk load tools such as the BCP Utility, dbload or FTP servers. Not to mention, compressing, FTP-ing, converting, shredding, parsing, optimizing, loading and validating bulk data is...
Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today: EF4 Challenges Accomplished with EF1
Microsoft’s recently released Entity Framework 4 (EF4) is generating deserved buzz among the .NET community. It seems that people can’t wait to make the jump directly to EF4, even if they haven’t even touched EF1. The perception is that EF1 was not up to snuff when it came to important...
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