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Abstracting Data Science for the Every Day User
Unlike my cohorts in San Francisco for the circus that is Oracle OpenWorld, I spent two days last week in sunny San Diego, talking to the folks from Teradata, a company with its roots…
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Big Data TV – Was This Steve Jobs’ Next Breakthrough?
Tim O’Reilly appeared on theCube earlier this year and made a remark about Apple’s killer app. He said it was the app store. Why? It’s the data that is in those apps that draws…
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Gaping Void on Steve Jobs – Here’s to the Crazy Ones
I just received an email from Gaping Void. Every day, cartoonist Hugh MacLeod does one of his iconic drawings that often points to the humor, absurdity and reality of our lives. Today he gives…
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Ellison and Benioff Battles Now Look Meaningless with Jobs Passing
The dueling, the growling and the insults between Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison this week at Oracle OpenWorld stopped having any relevance late yesterday afternoon. Steve Jobs is dead. Every rivalry in the tech…
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The Benioff “Unkeynote” and How the Community Trumped Larry Ellison
This is a historic week. During the height of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s the social Web and the revolution of mobile that has become the focus of the conversation. It’s not Larry Ellison. It’s not…
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Oracle: We Did Not Cancel Benioff Keynote, We Just Moved it to a Broom Closet
The joy of the circus is in seeing what next act will make you gasp, fill you with surprise and make you laugh at the spectacle of it all. Today’s act at Oracle OpenWorld?…
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Apple.com Web Site Goes Down
The Apple.com Web site went down today, following the keynote by new CEO Tim Cook. The site could not be reached for about 20 minutes. It went back up around 12:20. The question –…
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Hadoop, NoSQL and Big Data Job Trends
Apple is looking for a Hadoop administrator to help “redefine” adverting on mobile devices. TripAdvisor needs a software engineer to build out its bigger than 25 terabyte database. Nokia seeks an engineer to help analyze…
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In Possibly His Worst Keynote Ever, Larry Ellison Unveils “Exalytics”
Larry Ellison (in his worst keynote ever?) announced Exalytics today, an appliance for in-memory analytics. As I reported on Friday, the hardware/software integration is the next permutation of Exalogic, what Ellison last year called…
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Oracle Adopting Open-Source R to Connect Legacy Systems
Oracle looks like it is investing in R, the programming language of choice for statistical analysis and rich, data visualization. Oracle says it will integrate R with its Oracle Database. Other signs from Oracle…