Dreamforce 2015: We’re Going To Need a Bigger Boat
the @salesforce devzone is mental. no hyperbole required. place is PACKED. “we’re going to need a bigger boat” #df15 pic.twitter.com/5BJHj5mnAy — Clique Baet (@monkchips) September 17, 2015 Last week I travelled to San Francisco for Dreamforce 2015. The annual Salesforce.com conference is actually kind of weird in that it is optimised for scale but it […]
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL
Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition. A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing […]
EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues
EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]
