I had lunch with Mark Cuban back in the Web 1.0 days, before he sold AudioNet/Broadcast.com. When I mention that streaming audio was going to be standard and that a...

I have a motto:

"All data is bad....

Personally I think companies are stupid to adopt this policy, because it will be resented which makes the people more likely to leave (and whether they leave within the period...

"The other issue is at some point OSS will hit a threshold for support and performance simply because a company cannot direct their needs against the project and thus getting...

So if you find yourself having to license an 8 core SSIS Server, an 8 core SSRS server and a couple of 8 core SQL servers you are looking at...

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It depends.

We have small clients that can't afford SQL Server, DBA's and the infrastructure, etc... But their data can not be hosted on the cloud due to legal reasons....

I'm delving deeper into the OSS and public data world: Python, pandas, PostgreSQL...

The Python combo of pandas and numpy begs to disagree...

PostgreSQL is cross platform, but I don't think it has as many features...

I think there's three types of data that Steve and others are thinking about:

1) There's Open Data from the government that is a great resource. I and many others use...

I assume the NSA and other governments have access to my systems and databases already, thanks to Microsoft and peers in the industry. So security really isn't much of an...

"I'll also say that there is a big difference between charitable giving and giving to a church. I wonder if those charitable statistics that people throw around make that distinction....

Whether you agree/believe with/in religion, GWaK does raise a good point that many people that go are very giving. They feel it to be a part of their religion. Is...

I realize that fact. I concur with your editorial. I was responding to GWAk, who chose to bring politics and...