Who's Going to Buy Whom Next Year- November 20, 2007 It's the time of year when everyone starts talking about what's going to happen in the market next year. While hanging out after the sessions in Amsterdam, we all got to talking about this. Most agree that nobody is going to buy Microstrategy, IBI or Ab Initio any time soon. Some talk about the BI players who are left, mainly Actuate.I've been wondering what HP is up to. They bought Knightsbridge and introduced the Neoview, but they haven't got anything else going on. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft,...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/whos-going-to-buy-whom-next-year.html Scalzi Reviews the Creationism Museum- November 19, 2007 Writer John Scalzi has written a really entertaining review of the Creation Museum. A good antidote to the depressing propaganda from the other day."Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And were not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, were talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into the heated and...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/scalzi-reviews-creationsm-museum.html Finally, Truth in Advertising- November 12, 2007 Consumer Reports is correcting some misleading TV advertisements. This first video deals with "restless leg syndrome", and it's about time. I'm sick of pharmaceutical ads aimed at specific disease that make it seem like we all might have them, while showing drugs that have side effects far worse than the disease itself. Gambling Intense sexual urges WhaaaThey're just side effects, so they must be minor. Drugs can solve everything! Buy more drugs! Maybe we could use them to solve the homeless...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/finally-truth-in-advertising.html Veterans Day: So Much for Supporting the Troops- November 12, 2007 More than 25% of the homeless population in the US are veterans. Yet veterans make up only 11% of the US population. That's a big disparity and points to the need for the Republican administration to do something to solve the problem.The Republican party has long shouted the message that "welfare mothers and homeless should just get a job", using it as a rationale for slashing the safety net, preventing passage of medical care reform, and cutting back on services for anyone who serves in the...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/veterans-day-so-much-for-supporting.html SOAP and WS- : This is Never Going to Work- November 10, 2007 Not going to work. May as well call WS- Death- since that's where it appears to be headed. I've had my head in the sand with "enterprise" web work, doing REST APIs and such, so I surfaced a couple months ago and looked at all this WS- SOA stuff and also Java stacksplatforms. They make my brain hurt.All this reminds me of the days of CORBA and object request brokers and how the world would be saved by all this magical interoperability. After a dozen years it almost worked, so we moved on to SOAP.http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/soap-and-ws-this-is-never-going-to-work.html Future of Business Intelligence Is Coming From Outside the BI Market- November 3, 2007 My keynote for the Orlando conference was all about the future. Instead of trying to predict exactly what we would be doing in five years' time, I talked about why it's hard to know that, why the people who do it (us industry analysts) are so often wrong, what we can look at to guess the shape of the future in our market, and some examples of smart people doing work that's already in the next generation of data warehousing.The slides are posted below. I'll have a transcript posted once I have...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2007/11/future-of-business-intelligence-is.html |