Archive for the ‘Datawarehousing’ Category
Sales inquiries increases x15 at MySQL
Looks like the Oracle acquisition of Sun is helping MySQL – according to Zack Urlocker (MySQL Marketing VP) via Twitter
Set a new record in lead gen last week. More than 15x what we were doing 3 months ago. Quantity and quality are both improving.
Maybe the threats of forks and rebellions are premature, particularly if the leads increase sales, and sales increases engineering resources. Whether the recent increase in transparency and openness continues at MySQL might be the bigger question.
Re: ‘In the Cloud’ is the New ‘as a Service’
In response to Mark Madsen’s post:
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/05/in_the_cloud_is.html
Doesn’t DW-in-the-cloud suffer from the same fundamental problem as DW-as-a-Service in that you have to pump all of your proprietary, strategic, highly sensitive data outside of the firewall onto someone else’s hardware?
